Sara Howell is profoundly, postlingually deaf (meaning she lost her hearing after she learned to speak). She is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. She can read lips.
Sara Howell is smart, savvy, beautiful..and deaf. And she's being stalked by someone who knows her every move. It all starts with a single white rose, taped to the buzzer at the Howell's apartment.
Sara Howell is thrilled to be asked to help out at a lavish fund-raiser at the Radley Museum, but her life is turned around when her discovery of the body of a security guard sets off a rash of harrassment that makes her realize someone wants her dead.
Sara Howell is alarmed when her friend is found dead and the police call it an accident, but her life is turned around when she finds reason to believe it was murder and decides to uncover the killer's identity and motive.
When Sara Howell's beautiful, wealthy friend Kim disappears, everyone assumes it is just another of Kim's ploys for attention, but Sara believes something bad has happened to her friend and sets out to investigate.
Sara Howell launches her own investigation after her father is killed by a hit-and-run driver and the police are unable to come up with any clues. When someone starts following Sara and her brother Steve begins receiving threats, she realizes her dad's death was no accident.
Sara becomes the center of attention when she rescues a young boy from a fire set by a desperate man, but her act of heroism puts her in danger when the arsonist sets his sights on her.
