Grace needs quiet. After her mother’s death, she flees to her mom’s hometown in Florida, planning to spend the summer transcribing tapes for the local historical society. The work is dull, the town stifling, but at least grief can be contained.
Then she hears Jake Underwood’s voice on a cassette from 1992. When he answers back, Grace realizes they can talk across time through the tapes.
What begins as connection soon deepens into something stranger. Hermitage is full of silences, tragedies no one mentions, and names no one says aloud. A hurricane decades ago claimed Jake’s uncle, yet the town insists on forgetting.
As Grace unravels the mystery, she learns some wounds are buried, not healed. And Jake’s silence hides the darkest secret of all.
