Story By Laney Loyd
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Laney Loyd

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Updated at Oct 12, 2026, 21:35
Nine years ago, Jim Calloway confessed to killing a classmate at a bonfire party in Alvin, Texas. Eloise was with him that night, and she knows he didn't do it. But she was drunk, the police dismissed her, and Jim begged her to stay quiet.Now she works as the executive assistant to Jim's older brother, Josh, the charming CEO of Calloway Energy. Then a threatening email lands in her inbox. Josh's former assistant falls to her death from a River Oaks balcony. And a brass key turns up taped beneath Eloise's desk drawer, labeled with a nickname no one in Houston has ever heard.The woman who left it knew the truth about the night Tessa Romero died. Now Eloise knows too. And the Calloways will do anything to keep it buried.Some secrets are kept behind glass.
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