When fourteen-year-old Maya Clearwater vanishes on a family hiking trip, her disappearance fractures the lives of everyone who loves her. Seventeen days of searching bring no answers-only a backpack neatly hung in the woods, a single shoe, and a lifetime of questions.Three years later, Maya comes home. But she is not the girl her family remembers. Haunted by fragments of memory, torn between silence and truth, Maya must piece together who she was, what happened in the woods, and who she has become.Told through journal entries, therapy notes, police reports, and raw first-person fragments, Fragments of Silence is a gripping psychological novel about trauma, survival, and the fragile art of rebuilding after shattering loss.For fans of Jodi Picoult, Lisa Jewell, and Celeste Ng, this emotional and suspenseful novel asks: What happens when the person you've been waiting for finally returns-but isn't the same person anymore?