A Child Too Quiet

<p>Some children scream. <br>Maya Sanders didn't.</p><p>At just seven years old Maya is returned to a home filled with shadows-and when the system checks the boxes she says nothing. <br>Not because she's okay. <br>Because she knows silence is safer.</p><p>When Maya is placed with Janine Thompkins a foster mother who sees beyond behavior a quiet war begins-not just for custody but for truth. As Janine uncovers what Maya cannot say she faces a system designed to measure compliance not pain.</p><p>A devastating lyrical novel about the cost of being unheard-and the quiet revolution it takes to be free.</p><p>*Some stories don't scream. They stay.*<br> </p>