Rudy Tucker wasn't looking for trouble, but just a little peace, maybe a warm meal, and a reason not to disappear. After his father's death and a lonely drift from the dusty backroads of Oklahoma to a city that never welcomed him, life had narrowed to grief and silence. Then he found a phone. And a name, Eve. It led him to a job at a psychiatric hospital-and to her. A woman who barely spoke. Whose sadness ran deeper than any chart could show. Who carried different names, shifting eyes, and secrets that curled like smoke around her silence. Rudy should've walked away. But he couldn't stop looking, couldn't stop caring. And soon, he couldn't imagine a life where she wasn't waiting on the other side of his every breath. But the closer he got, the more the truth began to twist. The mystery of who she really was threatening to unravel everything: her past, his future and their fragile middle-of-nowhere world. And in the end, it wasn't just grief that threatened to undo him-but everything he'd ever built, everything he'd lived for, breaking all at once.
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