It happens quietly one August morning.
Now, though she den.
Calli\'s mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband.
Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into Silence as a toddler.
As dawn\'s shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.
It happens quietly one August morning