Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened by Torey Hayden

Paperback published by Element 2007

Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cansis a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior.

Charming, charismatic four-year-old Drake will speak only in private to his motherwhile his tough, unbending grandfather's demands for an immediate cure threatens to cause irreparable harm.

And though she had never worked with adults, Hayden agrees to help fearful and silent eighty-two-year-old massive stroke victim Gerdadiscovering in the process that a treatment's successes could prove nearly as heartbreaking as its limitations.