Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Marisa de los Santos:

The Trusted, November 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Watch Us Shine, June 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
I'd Give Anything, May 2021
Paperback / e-Book
I'd Give Anything, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
I'll Be Your Blue Sky, March 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Precious One, April 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Falling Together, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Falling Together, October 2011
Hardcover
Belong To Me, July 2011
Paperback
Belong to Me, April 2008
Hardcover
Love Walked In, December 2006
Trade Size

THE TRUSTED
By: Marisa de los Santos

Blackstone Publishing
November 2026
On Sale: November 17, 2026
Featuring: Lina Cordova; Aaron Cash
432 pages
ISBN: B0GQX14TSD
EAN: 9798228315372
Kindle: B0GT7FYL1M
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Mystery Police Procedural

With The Trusted, New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos introduces readers to their new favorite detectives, Lina Cordova and Aaron Cash.

What happens when the ones we trust the most betray us?

In the charming, tight‑knit community of Sheppley, Pennsylvania, Detective Lina Cordova and her partner Aaron Cash are still reeling from their failure to get justice for Tally Frost‑wife, grieving mother, and Sheppley society queen who disappeared a year earlier‑when another high‑profile case hits their desks.

A body is discovered in a remote hunting cabin, shot through the head. The victim was a man plagued by a controversy that once rocked Sheppley to its core. There is no shortage of suspects, and they include people Cordova and Cash know well, which makes it even more difficult to distinguish truth from lies.

The daughter of a Filipino doctor and a mother from an old‑money Sheppley family, Ivy League‑educated Lina Cordova is acutely aware of the social dynamics and prejudices of her hometown, while young Aaron Cash is a recent transplant, an escapee from an abusive home life in rural Tennessee. As their twisty search for the truth takes them to ever darker and more complex places, the two are forced to grapple with their own painful losses, as well as impossibly hard questions: How far would we go for the people we love? Are some secrets better left hidden? Can murder itself be a form of justice?