Echoes Behind the Shutters: A story of loss, lament and resilience

By Ruby Govender

Fernville was supposed to be safe. Then the factory burned, the town fell apart, and the Reed house became a war zone. Trapped with an addict for a father, a fading mother, and danger at their door, Ciara struggles to rescue her brother from a nightmare that keeps growing darker.

When violence erupts, and the unthinkable happens, they are torn apart: one forced into survival, the other into a silence so deep it seems like death.

Years later, as a mother herself, Ciara must face the ghosts behind every shutter in Fernville: the night that changed everything, the brother who no longer speaks, and the truth that trauma never really leaves.

But within the darkness, one memory glows: the teacher who saw her when no one else did; proof that a single act of compassion can change the course of a child's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 104831281X
• ISBN13: 9781048312812
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Creative Books Sa
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"