{"id":35904,"date":"2026-02-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35904"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:04:47","slug":"newrelease-guilty-silence-silence-3-by-freya-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35904","title":{"rendered":"#newrelease &#8211; Guilty Silence (Silence, #3) by Freya Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71-e2Rhh7L._SY425_.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35905\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71-e2Rhh7L._SY425_.jpg?resize=275%2C425\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71-e2Rhh7L._SY425_.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71-e2Rhh7L._SY425_.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bess Choi is proud of what she\u2019s accomplished. Owner of Strange Brew, a popular coffee shop in Silence, she\u2019s worked hard and has overcome many obstacles to build the life she has. It\u2019s a good life, one that includes work she loves, an apartment to call her own, and plenty of good friends.<\/p>\n<p>But an unexpected phone call comes as a brutal reminder of a time she thought she\u2019d left far behind. Suddenly, she\u2019s faced with the choice to turn her back on the beautiful life she created, or break her guilty silence.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Deputy Hugo Alexander isn\u2019t sure when exactly he started seeing the quiet coffee shop owner as more than simply a good friend. It\u2019s hard to pinpoint the moment when she went from a supportive friend to him and his teenage son, to the woman who features in his dreams and fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Bess Choi seems to have him firmly locked in the friend zone, and it\u2019s not until worrisome things start happening around her, she cautiously starts lowering the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>But when he discovers she might be in far more danger than she\u2019s been willing to let on, he\u2019s done tiptoeing around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=474%2C158\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4jQCsuX\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25626\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=474%2C158\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories.<\/p>\n<p>Driven to make her books about &#8216;real&#8217; people; she creates characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy, but just as deserving of romance, thrills, and chills in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We&#8217;ve Read All Year Award for &#8220;Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon \u201cReader\u2019s Choice\u201d Award for Best First Book, \u201cSlim To None\u201d, and Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with \u201cFrom Dust\u201d, Freya continues to add to her rapidly growing collection of published novels as she spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news and updates on books and upcoming releases, you can subscribe to my newsletter: https:\/\/www.subscribepage.com\/Freya_Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Or you can stay in touch on Facebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FreyaBarkerWriter<\/p>\n<p>Professional Inquiries:<\/p>\n<p>For inquiries regarding foreign rights, audio, and other media outlets, please contact my agent, Stephanie Phillips of SBR Media.<\/p>\n<p>stephanie@sbrmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bess Choi is proud of what she\u2019s accomplished. Owner of Strange Brew, a popular coffee shop in Silence, she\u2019s worked hard and has overcome many obstacles to build the life she has. It\u2019s a good life, one that includes work she loves, an apartment to call her own, and plenty of good friends. But an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#newrelease &#8211; Guilty Silence (Silence, #3) by Freya Barker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9l6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35906,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35904\/revisions\/35906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}