Mute is a twisting ride that will leave readers speechless.

A detective’s love for an orphaned girl witness has her turning a blind eye to evidence that could stop a wave of unnatural murders.

Mute follows detective Monique “Moni” Williams, who is recovering from child abuse and feels held back by racial stereotyping on the force. If there’s any hope of stopping the murders along Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, she must coax out Mariella’s account of the gruesome beheadings of her parents. The traumatic attack has rendered the eight-year-old mute. Moni vows to protect her from both the killer and her supervising detective as he demands answers in the case. Yet, the toxic mutations to the lagoon and its wildlife make getting the truth from the vulnerable witness a matter of life and death for the people of the Space Coast.