title: Speechless
author: Stewart, Phyllis A.
description: Sarah and Mickey lived on neighboring farms as children and were inseparable best friends. When Sarah was nine, Mickey and his family abruptly disappeared; his father ran off to avoid being arrested for the murder of Sarah’s father. She’d witnessed the murder through the hay drop door in the barn, but the trauma was sufficient to block it from her mind until 22 years later. Now in an unhappy marriage, she begins to have nightmares about it. The dreams gradually show her more of what happened, and the clues lead her to team up with the new owners of both farms to try to discover who really killed her father and why. Clues come from attics, from childhood secrets, from neighbors, and from her own mind. At last they succeed in clearing his father’s name by finding the real murderer, and Sarah realizes her lifelong dream of seeing Mickey again.