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In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

An endearing tale of deep familial love between a young niece and her uncle, highlighting the importance of family, and the sad legacy of its disintegration in a world where there is an all too broad absence of fathers in the homes and far too many transient males in and out of them.