Edges of Intention Open House: A Novel of Exposure, Witness, and Controlled Rooms, Book 12, (Paperback)

Some houses are opened for the public. <p>The most dangerous ones are opened for interpretation. </p><p>In <b>Open House</b>, the twelfth novel in the <b>Edges of Intention series</b>, Nathan and Sloane Reed discover that closing the hidden routes of a powerful institution does not end the pressure on a marriage. It merely changes the stage. As Hawthorn House is repositioned as a civic success story after scandal, public tours, donor language, and curated transparency begin turning private repair into a new kind of performance. </p><p>What was once hidden now becomes visible on purpose, and visibility brings its own appetite. Visitors read rooms as evidence. Committees market innocence before it is earned. Familiar observers begin treating openness as permission to narrate the Reeds' life from the outside. Nathan and Sloane are no longer only defending thresholds. They are defending authorship. </p><p>Dark, intimate, and psychologically exact, <b>Open House</b> is a novel of reputation, public witness, marriage under scrutiny, and the dangerous difference between real transparency and staged innocence.</p>

• Edges of Intention Open House: A Novel of Exposure, Witness, and Controlled Rooms, Book 12, (Paperback)
• Author: Camille Arden
• ISBN: 9798198296961
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-23
• Page Count: 222