The Silence of Millie

By Annie Clayton

Eliza Hartwell has nothing left to lose.

Falsely accused of theft by a wealthy Boston family, she answers a mail-order bride advertisement from a shopkeeper in Copper Bend, Idaho Territory. She expects hardship. She does not expect a silent child who runs into the dark, a mother-in-law who watches her like a threat, or a guarded man whose tenderness is reserved only for the niece he cannot reach.

Seven-year-old Millie hasn't spoken since her mother died. The town calls it grief. Eliza calls it fear. Because Millie doesn't run from everything. She runs from one man. And he's still sitting at the family dinner table.

As Eliza pieces together the truth behind a death everyone accepted too easily, she finds herself drawn to Jonah Hale, a former Army scout who reads tracks better than people and has spent a lifetime keeping the wrong kind of silence. Together, they must protect a child no one believed and confront a killer no one suspected.

But uncovering the truth means risking the only home Eliza has left.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H583LJ9K
• ISBN13: 9798181495951
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"