Unspoken is the story of the O'Brien family and the important truths in their lives that they fail to tell each other. It is not that they lie, but that they leave important things unsaid, which leads to tragic consequences. The story begins in Charlotte, emerging from its past as a center of polite Southern restraint, and reveals itself in New York, the capital of untrammeled desire.

Jack O'Brien, successful executive, husband, father, rises from a mill town to Duke University and marries into a wealthy Charlotte family, eventually running the family-owned bank. At the story’s beginning he plans the takeover of a New York money-center bank that will catapult him to a place among the world’s financial titans.

Daniel, his son, just graduating from Duke and on his way to Harvard Business School, makes a sudden break and escapes to New York, where he becomes an unwitting catalyst in a chain reaction of ambition, revenge, longing, and ultimately, love.

Carolyn, wife, mother, and the heir to the Reynolds family fortune, looks ever deeper and inward as her unresolved past forces itself into her apparently perfect life.

Julie, daughter, rebel, ignored and therefore free of expectations, is the book’s authentic character from the beginning, and reminds us of the full potential of awareness and communication.

Family, power, sexual deceit, and discovery, all in a complex, fast-paced, and deeply moving story, Unspoken traces the inevitable consequences of denial and the ultimately uncontrollable force of sudden enlightenment.