Grace Marchmont is deaf - and one of the most gifted calligraphers in the county. In her study at the top of Marchmont Hall, where every gilded initial becomes a small work of art, she needs neither voice nor music: here only the quiet, focused beauty born of pure care matters. Grace speaks with sign and pen, and has learned to hold her own dignified place in a hearing world. But when, in the summer of 1820, a man enters her life who has never before met a deaf woman, her carefully guarded silence begins to stir - and Grace must ask whether true closeness does not begin exactly where words become unnecessary. Book 7 of "The Wyndham Season" - a tender Regency romance about difference, self-assertion and a love you cannot hear, only feel.