Dismissing the unnerving local residents who gawk and pay for her purchases is the least of Olivia’s worries. Why had her father never mentioned the valley, a place he’d been making routine trips to throughout most of her life? Why had she been told her mother was from Nebraska when she’d been born in the valley? Why had her aunt lied to people about where they would be living? And who was the guy that seemed to appear out of nowhere to give comfort at the wake and then had disappeared just as fast?ĭespite Olivia’s determination to be normal, ignoring the reason for the flashes of movement she’d been seeing out of the corner of her eye since her discharge from the hospital proves to be impossible when a sinister voice terrorizes her dreams. One by one fundamental truths are stripped aside as everything she ever believed about her family is called into question Behind closed doors things in this sleepy community are far from ordinary. Spring Valley, Colorado should hold the connection to her father she longs for, but that longed for connection turns out to be more than Olivia ever imaged. Still recovering physically and mentally from the loss of her parents, high school senior Olivia finds herself living with an aunt she hardly knows in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Since that night a voice haunts her nightmares and snakes out to torment when she is alone and vulnerable.

On that isolated stretch of road with the weight of all that silence pressing against her mind and body, something sinister had kept them company. Silence reminds her of the accident that killed her parents and left her trapped in a mangled car. Olivia Pepperdine has a love hate relationship with quiet

Brush of Shade by Jan Harman