The Hush Between Bells

A thirteen-year-old girl who writes letters for dying miners becomes the only keeper of a town's vanishing memory. In the coal hollows of Pennsylvania, autumn 1918, Nell Welliver trades her gift with words for coins and bread—until the Spanish influenza arrives and transforms her craft into something desperate and sacred. As the mine foreman burns quarantine orders to keep his shafts profitable and bodies stack faster than her father can build coffins, Nell secretly copies every deathbed farewell into a hidden book, racing against a plague that wants to erase an entire community from history.