WHISPER OF SECRETS ¶ By Dusk Peterson

Private confessions. Public masquerades.

Whispers of Secrets is a cycle of mystery novels and contemporary fiction on the hidden secrets underlying ordinary contemporary life.

The cycle: Hidden News | Unmasked.

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CYCLE CONTENTS

HIDDEN NEWS.

Confessional.
Side stories: Puppets.

UNMASKED.

The Greatest of Goods.
Twenty Thousand Gold Stars.

Reviews (separate page).

Hidden News

Religion news reporter. Investigative reporter. Bo is both.

Hidden News follows the fortunes of a journalist who is a little too inclined to show an interest in the less savory aspects of life in his small town.

The series is part of the Whisper of Secrets cycle. ¶ Hidden News genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

Confessional (Volume 1 of Hidden News)

Being at the scene of a crime can be handy for a reporter. Unless, that is, the corpse turns up in your workplace.

For Bo, a small-town journalist of religion news who does investigative reporting in his spare time, the death of a fellow reporter causes him endless headaches. Bo's editor wants him to find out quickly why a staff writer died in the newsroom of the Oakton Trumpet. His colleagues want him to stop snooping around in their business. Bo suspects that the answer to the mystery lies in the town's Catholic churches, but it will take all of Bo's skill to learn what secret needs to be confessed.

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Side stories

Puppets. A reporter is assigned to cover what sounds like the perfect feel-good story: the victim of a crime will forgive her offender. The only problem is that the criminal and the victim are refusing to cooperate.

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¶ Data: 10,000 words.

Unmasked

Behind the screaming news headlines, behind the hype and the sensationalism, lies the quiet but dramatic tale of people whose actions may change the lives of the next generation.

Unmasked is a contemporary fiction series on a challenging topic.

The series is part of the Whisper of Secrets cycle. ¶ Unmasked genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

The Greatest of Goods (Volume 1 of Unmasked)

To all appearances, Jevon leads an uneventful life. The son of divorced parents, he is little noted by his high school classmates, preferring to spend his leisure hours at home or in the public library.

But people around him are beginning to sense that all is not well: his mother, who finds it hard to determine the correct balance between encouragement and nagging; a classmate who struggles along the fine line between socially acceptable nonconformity and disobedience to societal ethics; and a teacher who fears that Jevon is hiding a dark secret. Knowing that speaking out could lead to disaster, Jevon must decide whether anyone in his life can be trusted . . . including himself.

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Twenty Thousand Gold Stars: A Novel about an Internet Community (Volume 2 of Unmasked)

White Rose has lived a double life for too long. For too many years, he has struggled alone to determine how he should handle an ethical dilemma he never wanted to face. Now, finally, he has found help online. But is it the right help?

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars describes an online world where anonymity is all-important, and where a knock on the door can spell disaster. Yet behind the masks that are unwillingly donned, men and women seek answers to imperative questions that will determine, not only their own futures, but the futures of those they meet in real life.

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     ¶ Data: 70,000 words.
     ¶ Fan translation into Russian by Rose Red (with the assistance of Honeysickle):

VOLUME CONTENTS

Home Page.

Firewall.

Log In.

Password Protected.

Alt Text.

Keywords.

Broken Connection.

Preview Mode.

Fatal Error.

Expand Alt Text.

Reviews

Reviews of Unmasked are listed on a separate page.

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