the Sight and Silence

She's spent a decade learning her own gift is worth less than other people's doubt. This time, she's done waiting to be believed.Thyme Hartley's second sight has never once been wrong. It has, however, always been too vague to prove and too late to stop what it warns of - a cruelty that cost her a childhood and taught her, hard, that a warning offered honestly rarely earns the trust it deserves.When a letter calls her north to help a scattered fen community build the sanctuary they've never had, Thyme rides out expecting hard labor and harder trust to earn. She doesn't expect Gideon Marlow, a steady former hunter willing to bet everything on her uncertain warnings before they've ever proven true. She doesn't expect Frederick, a quiet builder carrying a secret large enough to have convinced a grieving son his father was murdered. And she doesn't expect Ezra: the son in question, now leading the very hunters threatening everything the fen has built, driven by a grief that was never built on the truth at all.As Thyme's sight sharpens into something this community finally trusts fully, and as Frederick's seventeen-year silence finally comes due, the reckoning bearing down on them all will cost more than anyone is ready to pay - and prove, in the end, that the truth spoken plainly is worth the danger of finally speaking it.A slow-burn, found-family romance about second chances, the long cost of silence, and the particular courage it takes to be believed.