Lillie Manning new novel, Walking on Eggshells 3 Tells a Story of Fear, Faith, and Survival

Lillie Manning’s new novel follows a young woman whose life changes after discovering a truth she was never meant to see.

Lillie Manning releases Walking on Eggshells 3: A Journey of Fear, Courage, and Survival, the latest book in her suspense series about trust, danger, and emotional survival. The story centers on Charity, a young woman who believes she has found a good man, a loving future, and a safe place through faith and family. Her fiancé appears kind, respectful, and deeply religious. For Charity, this relationship feels different from all the others. It feels right. But one unexpected moment inside his family home destroys that belief and forces her to leave everything behind.

Charity’s escape is sudden and confusing, shaped by fear more than planning. Manning shows how quickly a life can fall apart when the truth is revealed at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Charity does not fully understand what she has seen, only that it is dangerous and cannot be explained away. As she runs, the story moves into unfamiliar spaces, quiet roads, and situations where help is uncertain. The novel captures the feeling of being alone with knowledge that no one else would believe or want to hear.

Faith plays a strong role in the novel, but it is presented with care and complexity. Walking on Eggshells 3 does not attack religion itself. Instead, it looks at how belief and authority can be misused to control others and hide cruelty. Charity struggles deeply with this conflict. She wants to hold on to her faith, yet she can no longer trust the people who claimed to represent it. Her silence becomes a form of survival, even as it costs her peace of mind and sense of belonging.

The story expands beyond Charity’s personal journey through additional plotlines involving crime, missing persons, and investigators who uncover violence beneath ordinary lives. These parallel stories increase the tension and show that Charity’s experience is not isolated. Manning keeps the pacing steady, allowing fear to grow slowly instead of relying on constant action. The characters make mistakes, hesitate, and doubt themselves. Survival in this book is not clean or heroic. It is imperfect, emotional, and often painful, which makes the story feel grounded and real.

About the Author
Lillie Manning, the author of the Walking on Eggshells series is known for exploring psychological fear, hidden abuse, and personal resilience. Her stories often focus on women placed in unsafe situations by people they trusted. Manning writes in a direct and emotional style, showing how power can hide behind kindness, faith, or respectability. Rather than offering simple answers, her work emphasizes courage, awareness, and the difficult choice to walk away from danger, even when doing so means losing everything familiar.