MY NAME IS MERRI WALTERS. I'M TWENTY–SEVEN YEARS OLD. TWO YEARS AGO, I SUDDENLY WENT DEAF

My teaching career ended and my fiance walked out. I survived–and learned to lip–read. So here I am, two years later, starting my new life as a cold–case file clerk turned undercover agent for the police. My task: Infiltrate the mansion of a ruthless crime boss and read his deadly plans off his lips.

Detective Steven Barlow, a tough cop who's convinced I'm on a suicide mission. And in a way, he's right–because if I'm caught, I'll be dead without ever hearing the bad guys coming