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For six years, you haven’t spoken a single word. Your life is quiet. Safe. Predictable. Until Nikolai Moretti walks into your bookstore. He’s intimidating, dangerously handsome, and searching for a missing man you promised you’d never admit to seeing. You lie. Nikolai knows it. And suddenly, the feared Mafia Don keeps finding reasons to return to your little bookstore. At first, he wants answers. Then he starts learning sign language. Then he starts looking at you like you’re something he never expected to find. But Nikolai doesn’t know why you stopped speaking. He doesn’t know what you witnessed six years ago. And he definitely doesn’t know the book hidden beneath your counter contains a secret people have already killed to protect. You thought silence would keep you safe. Then the most dangerous man in the city learned how to understand you without needing to hear a single word. you’re mute… or are you?