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 . . . and that unbelievably links them all.
