The Quiet Between Us

Lila Wren doesn't speak.
Not because she doesn't want to but because the world has made it too hard to be heard. After losing her parents and enduring relentless bullying, she's moved in with her grandmother to start over. New town. New school. Same silence.

But then she meets Clara Hartley, her 35 year old art teacher. She is gentle, patient and quietly radiant, Clara becomes the first person who doesn't treat Lila like she's broken. In the safety of Clara's classroom and the soft spaces between words Lila begins to feel something she never thought she'd know again: peace.

They exist in two different worlds but slowly, with every glance, every sketch and every unspoken moment something delicate begins to bloom between them.

This is a story about healing, found family and the kind of love that doesn't need to be loud to be life changing.

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