The Marriage Photograph

A photograph can preserve a moment. It cannot tell you what someone wanted you to forget.Three years after her wedding, Nerys Vey receives a parcel containing six photographs from a day she believes she remembers perfectly.At first, there is nothing unusual about them. Then she notices a woman.The stranger appears in the background of every photograph, wearing a dark coat and a silver brooch with an unusual symbol. Nerys cannot remember seeing her. The woman is missing from the official wedding album. And one photograph suggests that someone had been waiting for Nerys long before the ceremony began.As a documentary editor, Nerys knows the difference between what a record shows and what someone wants it to mean. But the trail leads into the history of Veyr House and a property investigation, and it begins to touch the people closest to her: A husband with a past he has never properly explained. A closest friend who may have played a larger part in her marriage than she knew. A photographer who preserved the evidence and may have disappeared because of it. A late father who may have known far more than he ever told her.The closer Nerys gets to the truth, the harder it is to hold on to what she thought she knew. And discovering what happened is only part of the problem. She must also understand why it happened and who benefited from her silence.The Marriage Photograph is a slow-burning psychological suspense novel about memory, evidence, loyalty, and the quiet cost of not asking questions. It is Book One of The Hidden Lives Collection, a series of independent investigations, each with its own setting and characters. You can start here and read the rest in any order.Perfect for readers who enjoy: Psychological suspense and domestic mysteries Stories built on evidence, documents, and slowly uncovered secrets Marriage and family secrets with a European setting Intelligent, character-driven investigations rather than goreLook closely. The smallest detail may change the meaning of everything that came before.