Laura Brandons promise to her dying father was simple to visit an elderly woman shed never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing—except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Lauras promise results in another death her husbands. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her fathers suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it—to talk at all. Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help. A man shes met only once—six years before. A man who doesnt know hes Emmas real father. Guided only by a childs silence and an old womans fading memories, the two unravel a tale of love and despair, of bravery and unspeakable evil. A tale thats shrouded in silence . . .
