The Joint Account: A Psychological Thriller About Marriage, Money, and the Lies We Sign: 1 - Softcover

CROSS, JACK

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798190102635

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The first dead couple paid me twenty-five thousand dollars.

Mara Holt came to Halcyon House to learn why her husband secretly moved $187,000 out of their savings. The invitation-only retreat promises complete financial honesty: no phones, no private accounts, no more lies.

Then Mara finds a brokerage statement she has never seen. The account is held jointly in her name and the retreat founder’s. Every deposit came from a couple who later died.

A video recorded three years earlier shows Mara confessing that she moved the money. She has never been to Halcyon House before.

By morning, her husband is missing. A storm has closed the only road. And the security footage shows Mara following him into the woods.

Someone at the retreat has rewritten their marriage one transaction at a time. To find her husband, Mara must prove which records are real, which memories have been edited—and why the money becomes hers if one more person dies.

The Joint Account is a fast, closed-setting psychological thriller about marriage, money, and the lies that become legal when both people sign.

It is Book One in The Lies We Sign, Jack Cross’s series of standalone psychological thrillers about ordinary agreements turned into weapons. Each book delivers a complete story and can be read in any order.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798190102635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218