This is the story of a silent woman named Alicia who was committed to a hospital for the criminally insane after being four standing over her dead husband. Alicia has not communicated in any way other than a self portrait in the years following her husbands murder. The story is told in alternating perspectives of her psychotherapist Theo, desperate to reach her, and her diary entries from the months leading up to Gabiel’s death. The past and present collide more and more as the mystery of what happened begins to be solved. I couldn’t put the book down, I had to know why Alicia was silent, would she speak, what happened to Gabriel and who harbors the secrets needed to answer them all. A riveting read that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.