Two strangers. One silent world.

Milan works six days a week to keep a crumbling house and a struggling family standing. Then the water takes him, and he wakes in the Hush: a vast, overgrown, impossibly quiet world of ruined towers, waterfalls and drifting golden light.

Days later, he hears something in the dark and finds Tara. She has been alone here for months, carving tiny figures so the silence can't win.

Neither of them trusts the moment enough to break it. But two lonely people in a world with no one else can only stay strangers for so long.

Beyond the Hush: The Hush Between Us is a slow-burn young-adult fantasy romance about grief, trust and finding someone to sit beside. It is the first book in the Beyond the Hush series.