The Silent Waters

At ten years old, the narrator loses her voice. Something is taken from her, and the one person who can truly hear her silence is Brooks Griffin. In the dark years that follow, he is her light and her promise of a better tomorrow.

Then tragedy reaches Brooks. Over time it pulls him under, and memories close over him like deep water. The girl who once leaned on him has to watch him sink.

The story is told in the first person, in the narrator's own voice, and it is built from moments: some painful and weighed down by old hurts, others hopeful. The biggest of them, the ones that break her heart and lift it, all involve Brooks.

The two characters love each other but do not love themselves. Their story moves between life and death, and between love and broken promises. It is the third book in the Elements Series and reads as a complete standalone.

The question running underneath is whether a love that began in silence can hold when one of them is going under.