Missy Wright, an outcast to her own strict family, let alone the philistines and gossips of the provincial Australian town of Byron, had lived on books and dreams since childhood—dreams she was certain would never come true.But one day a mysterious stranger arrives in town, buys the neighboring valley, and intends to build a house there to, in his own words, "listen to the silence".The stranger, who once comes to Missy's aid, is like a knight in shining armor from the novels she has read...
