A Hymn For The Unheard

Penance: an act of self-abasement, mortification, or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin

Bar Habor, Maine. A small town where power runs through bloodlines and silence is survival, Soleia Marrow, the pastors daughter, the one no one listens to no matter how loud she shouts and the one who no one dares to save.

Behind church doors, "purity" hides something far darker. When she tries to escape, the trees whisper and she can feel the stare of every single eye on her watching her every movement, protecting every truth buried deep within their lies.

Everyone knows.

No one speaks.

Especially him.

Elias Caldwell, the mayors son. The top of the food chain yet he feels the smallest of it all. He was raised to be perfect, careful, controlled, and always watching He's spent his whole life staying out of the way, knowing that stepping in the light made him a target himself. So he keeps his distance, until ignoring wasn't an option anymore.

Because silence isn't innocence, and some truths refuse to stay buried.