The Things We Buried

By Arla Jones

Abused women find their voice and speak for the current ones. The Town has to face the silence.

What a town buries, it teaches. What it teaches, it passes on.

Jackson is gone. But what he did here didn't leave with him. It stayed, settled into the walls of the school, absorbed by someone who watched a golden boy walk away from everything and understood the lesson. That silence protects. That the right posture, the right confidence, the right town behind you makes you untouchable.
His name is Ryan Paulson. He is a senior. He has been sending messages to a girl named Lena since September.
And he has no idea that two women are back in Trinity Falls, a town that failed them both, carrying ten years of evidence and the kind of fury that outlasts fear.
The Things We Buried is the second book in the Trinity Falls series. It is about what a community teaches without meaning to. About the damage that travels not in people but in the silence they leave behind. And about what happens when the women of this town, once silenced, finally decide they are done waiting for someone else to speak.

For the readers who loved Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW9P367J
• ISBN13: 9798233821233
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Arla Jones
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"