The Shape of Silence

Name: The Shape of Silence
Author: Rebecca Ruger

93 pages

For ten years, Avery Mercer has lived with the uneasy certainty that something catastrophic must have happened to have separated her from her parents and the world she knew in 1995.

Lost in a Scottish forest since she was eleven, Avery has survived with only a small cottage, the surrounding woods, the fading memory of the old man who once kept her alive, and the hope that one day someone might find her.

Someone finally does. Grievously wounded after a skirmish with English soldiers, Highland warrior Morggán mac Ruaidhrí stumbles into Avery’s secluded world. As she nurses the battle-worn laird back to health, the quiet life she has built begins to unravel. In the man she rescues, Avery discovers something she’d long since stopped hoping for: companionship, belonging… and a reason to imagine a future beyond mere survival. The outside world soon comes searching for him. His growing army transforms her peaceful refuge into the center of a dangerous campaign, and the man who was never meant to stay becomes impossible to let go.

Then Avery begins to sense that something about her life simply doesn’t make sense. For ten years she has lived with unanswered questions, fragments of memory, and a lingering feeling that the world around her was not what it seemed. What as a child she’d dismissed as confusion or imagination becomes impossible to ignore, forcing her to confront the possibility that her isolation has never been simple misfortune, but something far more impossible. She has not merely been lost in the wilderness; she has been living seven hundred years in the past.

When she finally entrusts Morggán with the truth, she risks losing the only person she cannot imagine being without. For a warrior who can face any enemy, believing the impossible may prove the greatest battle of all.

A story of quiet courage, unexpected love, and the extraordinary leap of faith required to trust not only another heart but the impossible itself, The Shape of Silence reflects the long, quiet silence that has defined Avery’s life for ten years—and the love that finally breaks it—in the next unforgettable novel in the Far From Home series.

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