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Laura Brandon promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but the weight of her own grief eclipses the old woman's desperate words. After her husband’s suicide, Laura’s daughter Emma remains mute, the only living witness to the tragedy. Desperate, Laura reaches out to a man she met nine years earlier—Emma’s biological father—hoping to unlock the mystery behind her daughter’s silence. As they dig into past memories, they discover a hidden darkness intertwined with love and despair, leading them to a startling revelation that reshapes everything they thought they knew.
First publish date: February 1999
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama
Authors: Diane Chamberlain
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