Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor, the dashing Daniel Greenleaf, comes to her Cape Cod village that she begins to hope again. Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of silence when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials. Now, after the church demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.