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The Silence Clause
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Publisher: Amado
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The dead do not leave testimony. They leave records.
Celeste Drum has built her career reading what other people miss: the altered phrase, the missing signature, the silence where evidence should be. When a family connected to the 1988 Reliance Industrial Processing explosion is found dead in what authorities call an accident, Celeste knows the old case is no longer buried. It is awake.
Thirty-five years ago, nineteen workers died in a chemical plant disaster in Baton Rouge. The official ruling protected the company, closed the record, and left the families with nothing but grief. Now Celeste has one remaining client, a trail of identical settlement offers, and a pattern of silence surrounding anyone who tries to reopen the case.
Then a forgotten storage trust surfaces-one tied to Arlene Drum, Celeste's mother, who died in the explosion. Inside may be the proof Celeste has spent years chasing: manifests, photographs, recordings, and evidence that someone knew the plant was storing dangerous chemicals illegally before the blast.
But the deeper Celeste digs, the closer the case leads to Meridian Industrial Holdings, a powerful corporation with billions at stake, and Justice Harlan Fitch, the same judge whose original ruling helped bury the truth. Every document points to a machine built to protect itself. Every witness is a risk. Every silence has a price.
To expose what happened, Celeste must turn grief into evidence and force the past into open court before the people who buried it can bury her too.
If the law was written to protect the guilty, how far must one woman go to make the record tell the truth?
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