Parker should be focusing on her budding romance. Yet with her murderous stalker dead and buried, she’s still plagued by worry: one of her men is a murderer, and the other seems way too comfortable with it. Despite their best attempts to convince Parker that nothing is wrong, she can’t shake the feeling that the problem was never her stalker, but Ashwick—and she’s not the only one to think that. Whilst Parker begins to dig into the small town’s shady history, a group claiming to be her stalker’s friends have arrived, armed with wild accusations and assumptions, and saying things that seem too crazy to be real—but their claims have been on Parker’s mind, too. Although she’s afraid to speak those same thoughts out loud, she doesn’t think she can look the other way. The choice she makes will have deadly consequences for at least one person: who faces them depends on her.

We Keep Secrets is the unsettling conclusion to the Behind Closed Doors duology, with plenty of creepy vibes and grey–to–black morals that make for perfect spooky season reading. The romance between FMCs Parker and MMCs Everett and Kayn continues to develop throughout the narrative, and—as I expected based on the first novel—the spice was extra steamy, although it felt somewhat out of place in some moments. FMC Parker was also a bit inconsistent in this story; I appreciate that she was working through some challenges to her morals, but I did grow somewhat tired of her internal “struggle”. The back and forth became repetitive and it wasn’t especially convincing at any point. The novel has a solid if predictable finish, leaving no glaring loose ends in terms of plot or characters—but plenty of moral questions.