It Happened in Silence

<p> It Happened in Silence follows <span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart who has been mute since birth. She has one task to complete-to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. It's Georgia 1921. The laws are not on her side. Or her brother's. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Briar is serving time on a chain gang with four months left. When an immigrant boy asks him for help Briar must decide if he should jeopardize his freedom to help the penniless boy.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Soon Willow and Briar become ensnared in a world of cruel secrets savage truths deceitful practices and desperate predicaments. This is a powerful tale of family a celebration of decency and the heartbreak of society's injustices then that rings true today. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light and buried mysteries are not all that hidden.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This novel delves into the gut and sinew of fairness probing often inexplicable questions as old and persistent as the forest itself. </span></p>