Charlie Peacock to Release Debut Novel “Once Concealed Now Revealed” on November 17
GRAMMY Award-winning music producer, recording artist, and author Charlie Peacock will release his debut novel, Once Concealed Now Revealed, on November 17, 2026, via It’s Time To Art Press. A wise, witty, and intricately layered story of unexpected friendships, enduring love, and a family’s reckoning with its secrets, the novel builds toward a single defining question: Can love survive the crucible of the whole, unguarded truth? The novel arrives on the heels of Peacock’s 2025 memoir, Roots & Rhythm: A Life in Music, which earned a starred review from Library Journal, a spot on its Best Books 2025 list for Performing Arts, and praise from Variety as “absorbing and exquisitely written.”
Moving between the affluent Bay Area, Sacramento, and agrarian Tennessee, the novel follows two generations of the Taylor family shaped by trauma and secrecy: a mother whose buried past and inflexible religiosity tore the family apart, and her oldest son Augie, whose success is as much a product of his pain as his giftedness. When Michael, the youngest Taylor sibling, suffers a violent, unprovoked attack, the family rallies around him, and long-buried unspeakables begin to surface. Soon Augie confronts the return of physical symptoms rooted in his own secrets. Though he loves his girlfriend Marie deeply, he cannot bring himself to reveal what is hidden. A controversial work assignment with millions at stake sends Augie and Marie to Tennessee to seek counsel from writer and sage J. Tapley Dial. At Sugar Creek Farm, among a culturally diverse ensemble cast, they encounter a “soil and soul” life of wisdom, hospitality, useful work, and presence, and find courage for what lies ahead. Blending mystery and psychological suspense with a multigenerational family saga, the novel explores a love story under unspeakable pressure, how deeply held beliefs can wound those we love most, and what it costs when success comes at the expense of people and planet. “Art has a way of revealing itself to the artist with a mix of intention and mystery,” says Peacock. “Perhaps this novel came to me because silence and avoidance have killed people I love, and because I have seen—in my own body, family, and faith—what happens when the unspeakable gets buried and when it finally speaks. It may hurt like hell. You may think you are dying. But the truth is, most things—especially love—survive.” Alongside the book, Peacock recorded two original gospel songs inspired by the novel, “Hallelujah, Your Love Has Set Me Free” and “New Life Down at the River,” both of which appear within the story itself.
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