Jodi Lamm

Mute, heartless, and tormented by auditory hallucinations, Madeleine Lavoie never questions why her family has hidden her from the world. But the night her brother casts her out, she learns the mysterious voice she thought existed only in her mind is no delusion, and no matter how hard she tries, she can never disobey it. Now Madeleine must find her own voice in a cacophony of powerful tyrants...

A young kidnap victim, intrigued by the black witch moth on the wall over her bed, learns it is no ordinary insect. It's a liminal creature who can erase whole events by closing the eyes on its wings. So she tells it a story and ends each night on a cliffhanger, hoping the moth will care enough about what happens next to close its eyes to her murder.