Silence can be golden...or deadly

A new home. A stable job. A wife healing from a miscarriage. Dale Woerkson is ready to embrace his fresh life rooted in suburban bliss while leaving the past behind.

Pretty. Enigmatic. Utterly mute. Talia Yearling is the new neighbor. She's also the victim of a years-ago domestic violence incident that left her without the ability to speak.

Now, when Talia is the target of another attack, it's Dale who intervenes. It's Dale who takes a blow to the head. And it's Dale who can barely remember what came next.

The foggy events haunt him. They consume him. And the more Dale works to figure it out, the more he tries to keep his life on track, the more it unravels. What really happened that night? How can he get a silent woman to tell him the truth? And what, exactly, is he willing to risk in order to find out?