In After the Silence, Kate Daniels is a high school English teacher living in Danville, Illinois. She suffers from disabling panic attacks that begin to affect her at home and school. With encouragement from her friend Leah, she seeks psychological counseling with Dr. Theresa Stile. Together, they embark on a two- year journey where Kate comes to terms with her family history and a past she has repressed. When Kate meets Michael Weston, she is forced to confront what lies beneath her paralyzing fear of intimacy. But will she be brave enough to take a risk to have the future she desperately wants? In an uncanny coincidence, a ghost from the past appears when one of her students reveals a terrifying secret. A secret Kate knows must be exposed to save them both. | After the Silence by Karin Hoffecker, Paperback | Indigo Chapters