She was married off over a fifty-dollar bet to a deaf farmer everyone called a monster. But the night Clara stuck tweezers into his ear, she discovered Elias hadn’t been born deaf… someone had condemned him. In the town of Jericho, they laughed at her at the altar. They called her “the fat girl” right up until her wedding day. And no one imagined that this humiliated young woman would be the only one capable of pulling out of his head a secret that had been alive for twenty years.
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