The Silent Series: Silent No More and Silent Guilt

The Silent Series in Order

Dark romantic suspense · N. E. Henderson · A two-book series, read in order

Read Silent No More first, and have Silent Guilt ready. This is a two-book series, not two standalones. Silent No More ends on a cliffhanger, and Silent Guilt picks up exactly where it stops. Both books are out, so there is no wait, but if cliffhangers are a dealbreaker you should know before you start rather than after.

One couple across two books. Silent No More is Shannon's, told in her voice. Silent Guilt hands the story to Nicholas and lets him answer for what he did in the first book.

Book One

Silent No More

Shannon Taylor & Nicholas Lockhart · Shannon's point of view · Spice 3 out of 5

I went to a bar to forget. Instead, I met the one man tied to everything I'd spent a decade trying to bury.

I caught my fiancé in bed with my best friend.

Five years. A lifelong friendship. Gone in a single heartbeat—and I wasn't about to stand there and listen to their excuses.

So I found the darkest corner of a hotel bar and set out to drink away five wasted years, one glass at a time.

I was almost numb when he decided to interrupt. Tall, gorgeous, wrapped in a suit that cost more than my rent—telling me to slow down.

Who did he think he was? If I wanted to drown my sorrows, I would.

That's the last thing I remember.

I woke up the next morning in his bed, in his clothes, with no idea how I got there—and a pair of piercing blue eyes watching my every move.

I should have walked away. But there's so much more to the ruthless businessman than the world is allowed to see… and the closer I get, the clearer it becomes: Nicholas Lockhart is tangled up in the one past I'd give anything to forget.

Some secrets don't stay buried.

Some of them come back wearing a familiar face.

Heads up. This book ends on a cliffhanger. The story concludes in Silent Guilt, which is available now.

Content warnings. Rape is depicted on the page. The heroine is seventeen in a past-timeline scene that is shown as a scene rather than summarized.

Formats: Free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Also in paperback. Audiobook sold wide.

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Book Two

Silent Guilt

Shannon Taylor & Nicholas Lockhart · Nicholas's point of view · Spice 3 out of 5

She thinks I'm her safe place. She'll never know what I did to become it.

I have blood on my hands.

For her, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I became a monster to destroy one—and I'd make that trade a thousand times over before I'd let it touch her.

But guilt doesn't scream. It waits—in the dark, in the silence, in every lie I tell the woman carrying my child.

I pushed her away to keep her safe. It nearly ended us both.

Now there's a detective asking questions I can't answer, a past that refuses to stay dead, and the only woman I've ever loved looking at me like she's no longer sure who I am.

She wants the truth.

The truth is the one thing that could take me from her—and from the family I'd kill to keep.

So I'll lie. I'll fight. I'll burn the whole world down before I let anyone take what's mine.

Even if the man she needs saving from… is me.

Some secrets you bury.

Some of them bury you.

Read book one first. Silent Guilt begins where Silent No More's cliffhanger ends and pays off the secrets planted there.

Content warnings. The rape depicted on the page in Silent No More is discussed here but never shown again.

Formats: Free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Also in paperback. Audiobook sold wide.

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Questions readers ask

Does Silent No More end on a cliffhanger?
Yes. Silent No More ends on a cliffhanger and the story concludes in Silent Guilt. Both books are out, so there is no wait. If cliffhangers are a dealbreaker for you, have Silent Guilt ready before you start.
Do I have to read them in order?
Yes. This is a two-book series, not a set of standalones. Silent Guilt picks up exactly where Silent No More's cliffhanger leaves off and pays off the secrets planted in book one. Start with Silent No More.
Whose point of view are they told in?
Silent No More is Shannon's story, told in her point of view. Silent Guilt flips to Nicholas and tells the conclusion from his side, which is what makes the finale land.
Do they end happily?
Yes, by the end of Silent Guilt. Book one does not give you one, because book one ends on a cliffhanger. The series as a whole resolves.
Are they in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Both ebooks are free to read with a Kindle Unlimited subscription, and both have audiobooks sold wide across Audible, Spotify, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Everand and other retailers.
How spicy are they?
Both are a 3 out of 5. Open door, written for adult readers, but the tension in this series is suspense first.
Will Nikki and Jase get their own book?
At this time I'm unsure if their story will be written. So far they aren't talking to me. If you've read Silent Guilt and my More Than books, then you know Eve and Chance first appeared in the epilogue of Silent Guilt. I'm hoping that when I write More Than Ink, it will spark Nikki and Jase's story.
Who are Eve and Chance?
They first appear in the epilogue of Silent Guilt, and they go on to headline More Than Ink, the third book in A More Than Standalone. You don't need either series to read the other, but readers of both will catch the thread.