{"product_id":"some-things-break-quietly-patricia-cole-9798198125704","title":"Some Things Break Quietly: A Dark Second-Chance Romance of Betrayal, Reckoning, and the Lawyer Who Saw Her","description":"\u003cb\u003eI used to think love died loudly. I thought there would be screaming matches in the rain and shattered glasses. I didn't know the real violence was a whisper.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor ten years, Hadley Pace lived a lie wrapped in the suffocating perfection of a four-bedroom colonial. Married to Reed, a charismatic, wealthy commercial real estate executive, she learned to navigate the weaponized silence and subtle psychological manipulation of a toxic marriage. He gave her a beautiful life, two children, and a reality built entirely on gaslighting and hidden betrayals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the undeniable proof of his infidelity finally shatters her carefully constructed delusion, Hadley is faced with a terrifying choice: stay and slowly disappear, or risk everything to break free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Calder Voss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is the ruthless, slate-eyed family law attorney she hires to dismantle her life. Calder doesn't do performative charm. He doesn't offer flowery sympathy or pity. He offers surgical precision, absolute protection, and the devastating reality of being truly seen for the first time in a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the legal battle turns into a vicious reckoning, the professional boundary separating the broken wife and her unyielding lawyer begins to burn. Calder gives Hadley the weapons to destroy her gilded cage, but stepping out of the wreckage means trusting a man again-and this time, the stakes are a matter of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Things Break Quietly\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw, emotionally intense dark contemporary romance. It is a story of surviving emotional abuse, the agonizing journey of divorce and healing, and finding a fierce, protective second chance at love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198125704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Patricia Cole","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743268385023,"sku":"9798198125704","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/some-things-break-quietly-patricia-cole-9798198125704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}