Dr. Rhea Lynch left a suffocating life in Charleston to
practice medicine in the ER of a small South Carolina
hospital. Now Dawkins County is her home, a place that
holds the only real family she's ever known. But when she
returns from vacation, Rhea is shocked to discover her
best friend, Marisa, near death and unable to communicate.
The official diagnosis: a paralyzing stroke. Despite the
family's attempts to keep her away, Rhea is determined to
make her own diagnosis. In an illicit examination, a
hideous truth is revealed. Then a man is brought into her
ER with similar symptoms. And then another. Each one of
her patients has been willfully, brutally, silenced in a
most inhuman way. Desperate to find answers, Rhea must
determine who she can trust, as a powerful conspiracy
threatens the people she loves -- and perhaps the entire
community.