Silence

Stella was born to sing, and her Broadway-worthy voice has given her the status of'cool kid'at school. When a freak accident renders her deaf, she cannot hear or even speak, much less sing. She is trapped in a strange new world of total silence. Then she meets Hayden, a lonely outcast with whom she can communicate because his pronounced stutter makes him speak so agonizingly slowly it makes it easy for her to read his lips. Hayden reaches out to help Stella, and a friendship grows into a deep connection and an unexpected romance. But Hayden's insecurities remain: will Stella leave him if she ever regains her hearing? At the same time, Stella's challenges with her disability force her to create an entirely new life of meaning and purpose. Love is blind, but it's also deaf. Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. Even though she's only a sophomore at a new high school, her voice has given her the status as a "cool kid." But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf. She can't hear herself sing not to mention speak. She can't hear anything. Silence. What happens when everything you've dreamed of and hoped for is shattered in a single moment? Enter Hayden, the boy with blond curls who stutters. He's treated like an outcast because he's not "normal." And, yet, Stella feels an attraction to him that she can't explain. As Hayden reaches out to help Stella discover a world without sound, his own tragic past warns him to keep a distance. But their connection is undeniable. Can the boy who stutters and the girl who's deaf ever find a happily-ever-after? Silence is a story of friendship and hope with a lesson that sometimes it takes a tragedy to help us find and appreciate beauty and love in unexpected place. After an accident robs Stella of her hearing and her dream of going to Broadway, she meets Hayden, a boy who stutters, and comes to learn what it truly means to connect and communicate in a world filled with silence.