Teenage Felicia is forced to deal with the abuse she has kept hidden since she was a young girl, when one family dinner turned into her worst nightmare. The happy little girl who loved to swing, laugh and play dress-up has long vanished. Felicia confronts her torture with the eyes of all her family on her, waiting for answers she doesn’t know if she has. Will she be able to out her abuser, or will she recoil into the state of normalcy she has adopted? Is she brave enough to be honest with her loved ones or will the damage done be too much to overcome?

Newly widowed Carlisle grasps at tenuous threads to regain a semblance of his former married life. He finds his way to The Silent, a hotel disguised as a total escape from the mental horrors its inhabitants face. But life at The Silent becomes an all-encompassing sickness, begging its visitors to give over their entire lives, with less and less in return. His beloved Abby grows more distant by the day, as his soul gives into grief and the growing desires to both serve The Silent and give up completely.