Silence, Then You

Maren knows her neighbor by rhythm alone—the steady cadence of his mornings, the low music he plays past midnight, the laugh that slips through plaster like a secret meant for her. She's never knocked. Eli has never noticed. But one dark, powerless night forces them into the same doorway, and suddenly the stranger she constructed from sound has a voice, a face, and questions she isn't ready to answer. Some connections begin long before a first word is spoken.