A telegraph station on the edge of the Atlantic. A war that never quite arrives, and a silence that does.Silas Thorne is eighteen when he walks the last seven miles to Heart's Content, a cable station on the Newfoundland coast where the first message ever sent across the ocean floor came ashore. He expects to spend his war listening for U-boats. He doesn't expect Clara, already seated at her desk, already working, who will still be there twenty years later...