The Silent Vigil is not a story in the traditional sense. It is a descent and ascent, a devotion, a pilgrimage into the stillness where words fail and only presence remains.

In the quiet of an abandoned Quaker meeting house, a woman on the edge of unraveling after trauma steps out of the storm—both the one outside and the one within—and finds herself face to face with a dog who does not speak, does not move, but sees her. What unfolds between them is not comfort, not rescue, but a sacred witnessing—wordless, sovereign, and unbearably real.

This is a book about collapse and consecration. About the scars we carry and the ways the soul remembers through the body. It is a meditation on sacred silence, on staying when it would be easier to run, on the presence that waits not to fix us—but to behold us.

For anyone who has found themselves lost at the altar of their own undoing, Silent Vigil is a love letter to the sacred that does not speak—but never looks away.

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