Is it better to keep quiet or to tell? Is it better to keep your cards to your chest or open up?

Keeping a secret can destroy a marriage. Revealing a secret can destroy a country.

When it comes down to it, though, secrets forever alter the people involved.

Writer and editor Dayle A. Dermatis assembles a compelling mix of stories that run the gamut from crime to fantasy to romance, from happy to sad to thrilling.

They all share one thing: the incredible voices of some of today's top fiction writers.