Three best friends. One night. Twenty years of secrets.
They had been best friends since they were eight years old. They thought they knew everything about one another. They were wrong.
Late-1990s DC.
Lanetta Jackson has a life she worked hard to protect, including the U Street coffee shop her grandmother fought to build and left in her hands. Katrina seems to have everything together until the one man her friends never trusted comes back into her life. And Marisa has spent years enjoying the privileges of a wealthy family without asking too many questions about where that money really came from.
Then one night at a packed DC cabaret changes everything.
A confrontation.
A fall.
A missing man.
A secret someone is willing to do almost anything to keep buried.
As Katrina fights to remember what happened, Lanetta discovers that the trouble surrounding her grandmother's coffee shop may be connected to Marisa's family, powerful people across DC, and a mystery that began long before any of them were born.
The closer the women get to the truth, the more dangerous their questions become.
Because some friendships can survive betrayal.
Some families can survive scandal.
But a secret this old?
Everybody knew something.
And somebody has been lying for twenty years.
The Secret We Kept: Everybody Knew Something is Book One of the U Street Trilogy, a dramatic story of friendship, betrayal, love, family, power, Black legacy, and the secrets people will do almost anything to protect.