Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled worlduntil one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her selfimposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden’s experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told hera story too horrendous for Torey’s professional colleagues to acknowledge. Yet a little girl was living in a nightmare, and Torey Hayden responded in the only way she knew howwith courage, compassion, and dedicationdemonstrating once again the tremendous power of love and the relilience of the human spirit.