The Quiet Arrangement

Sofia Hartley has spent her life disappearing-into silence, into routine, into the background.

At seventeen, she's almost made it. One more year of school. One more year of being invisible.

Then her parents arrange her marriage to Mr. Bennett-her thirty-two-year-old literature teacher.

He didn't ask for it.
She didn't agree to it.
But neither of them says no.

In a town where silence keeps families intact and reputation means everything, Sofia and Mr. Bennett are forced into a bond neither of them understands.

He follows rules. She hides from them.
But some lines, once crossed, can't be uncrossed.