Love Written in Blood and Silence

On a rain-soaked Thursday night, seven-year-old Mira Castillo stands at the top of a twelve-step staircase and watches a man take her father's life. He looks up. Their eyes meet. He shakes his head once.Don't.She doesn't speak. Not that night. Not at the funeral. Not for twenty-three years.What Mira doesn't know what no one has told her, what her mother has sealed behind decades of managed silence...