The Silence After
Songs To Stories Volume X
Inspired by: Cassandra by Taylor Swift
COMING SEPTEMBER 13th, 2025
Some truths burn too quietly to be heard.
Cassandra Whitaker has built a new life thousands of miles from the Pennsylvania town that broke her. A bestselling horror novelist writing under a carefully guarded pen name, she’s finally found safety, success, and a family of her own. But when her estranged brother reappears with news of their mother’s devastating decline, Cassandra returns to Jim Thorpe determined to do the right thing—even for the woman who never protected her.
What she discovers is a nightmare of betrayal: a stolen house, drained accounts, lies twisted into weapons, and a brother who will stop at nothing to keep control. As Cassandra fights for her mother’s care, the past claws its way into her present, unraveling the career she built, the name she hid behind, and the fragile peace she’s worked so hard to keep.
Dragged through courtrooms, crucified by the press, and hunted by the very family who should have stood beside her, Cassandra learns the brutal cost of telling the truth in a world that prefers the comfort of lies.
Haunting, intimate, and devastatingly real, The Silence After is a story of resilience in the face of cruelty, the futility of justice that arrives too late, and the quiet strength of a woman who refuses to let betrayal define her.
Because sometimes, when the truth finally comes out, all it is—
is silence.
