"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--

Tillings Island, Rhode Island, witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. On her sixth birthday her father left ... and took her voice with him. Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Iz and her mother board the ferry to Tillings in hopes that the journey will help Izabella heal herself by piecing together splintered memories of the day her words fled. But heartbreak is a difficult puzzle to solve, and as the island prepares to celebrate their annual Yemayá festival Izabella must unravel the tangled threads of her own history-- and any chance she may have for a future.