In the Silence

A young woman searches her dark past for answers. Only sometimes the answers you get are the ones you wish you'd never found. In this touching Friessen Family Novel, as Cat Friessen searches for answers from a past that still haunts her she unexpectedly meets a man hired to keep her safe, a man who reaches her in a way no one else has. But when a dangerous flirtation ensues and secrets are revealed the ultimate cost could be love. Growing up Cat Friessen didn't always know who she was. In fact her earliest memory is of being alone in a silent world, not able to hear anything, terrified and misunderstood and left like yesterday's garbage in a Mexican orphanage. It is a memory that haunts her and one she's never shared with her parent's Neil & Candy Friessen, who have given her their name, their love, and a surgery that changes her life for the better. But now nineteen-year old Cat struggles with her sheltered existence and the fact she doesn't really fit in and her identity sits somewhere in not really deaf and not really hearing. Even though she now has a life she is grateful for, she can't help the fact she is fast slipping into a world that seems to belong to everyone else, as her past continues to haunt her like a big black hole of secrets her desperate to find answers. Only Cat can't share with anyone, what she's thinking, feeling, or the answers she's searching for. But all that changes when she meets Xander Jennings, a man who takes tall, dark and dangerous to another level, a man who shows up one morning in parent's living room, after the house almost burned down and Cat couldn't hear the alarms. Hired by her father to make sure what happened the night before never happens again. Only Xander Jennings has secrets of his own, and he doesn't share with anyone. And every job he's been hired for he sets strict rules to live by. No getting involved with the client. Until he meets Cat, which leads to a dangerous flirtation that could end up costing him dearly, where he must choose the job he was hired or come clean with Cat of everything he is hiding, which could cost him an opportunity of love.