What We Thought Was Best

By: Aven Rell

Six friends. Six anonymous confessions. Fifteen years later, one of them is wrong.

At university, Lena Hart and five friends sealed their secrets in a blue-grey box, promising not to open it until the future felt safely distant.

Now Mara is getting married at an English country house, and the old group is together again. After dinner, the box returns to the table.

One confession contains a detail that cannot be true.

By morning, Mara is dead.

Lena, now an obituary editor, has spent her career deciding which facts belong in a life. But as the wedding weekend fractures into suspicion, she is forced back through old betrayals, missing messages and choices made in the name of protecting the people they loved.

Because the most dangerous secrets in this group are not only about what they did.

They are about who believed they had the right to decide what was best for someone else.

What We Thought Was Best is a character-driven psychological suspense novel about friendship, guilt, memory and the damage caused by good intentions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG7XP2MY
• ISBN13: 9798194424429
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"