A Flaw of Her Own Making

By Steve Culpepper

Some wounds don't fade with time. They wait. They echo.

At twelve years old, Grace Ofterdahl learned that silence was safer than the truth. So from that point on, for the rest of her life, she buried her shame and the reason for it under the veils of academic achievement, professional success, and a lifetime of careful, controlled lies.

Until a cold-case murder is thawed out and the past refuses to stay buried any longer.

The decades-old crime resurfaces, and with it arrives the man Grace never wanted to need again-Steeg Patterson. The murder investigation closes in, the secret she's protected her entire life risks being exposed, and all of it is no longer hers to control. Someone knows. And they're not staying quiet.

Silence comes at a cost. So does the truth.

Once, Grace and Steeg walked away from each other when the consequences of bad decisions, war, and life itself overtook them. Now, with her freedom - and maybe her life - on the line, walking away isn't an option for either of them.

For Steeg, some promises don't expire. For Grace, neither do some sins.

A Flaw of Her Own Making is a decades-spanning psychological thriller about memory, survival, and the reckoning that comes when the truth can no longer wait - where one twelve-year-old's silence built an entire life that one investigation is about to tear down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXVM743W
• ISBN13: 9798252201740
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"