Books like To fill a silence by Jayne Bauling

Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring* examines the widespread use of pesticides and their harmful effects on nature, sparking the modern environmental movement.

Pat Barker reimagines the final days of the Trojan War through the eyes of Briseis, the captured concubine of Achilles, revealing the voices of the women walled in the Greek camp.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

How to handle a heartbreaker... "What sends bachelors running for their lives? Weddings and babies! Starting to look at furniture, develop an interest in expensive rings, muse aloud about the names you're going to give your children." Blythe looked everything she was not -- sophisticated, experienced and a woman who had many men in her past. Christian Ballantine, on the other hand, was a heartbreaker of the first order, and his woman-of-the-moment was Blythe. He intended to sleep with her and she was determined he would not. But how was she to divert him? She would ask him to marry her -- that would frighten him off!

Arrogant, cynical and devastatingly attractive... Long ago Fee had decided Simon Rhodes was trouble, but now, forced to move back to Hong Kong after four years in Australia, Fee finds avoiding Simon impossible when he becomes her new boss! Fee is appalled to discover that his forceful magnetism affects her more than ever. But since Simon has made it clear that a casual relationship is all he will ever be able to offer, Fee knows she would only be risking her heart if she ever put her trust in him completely....