Ada Sinclair is forty-six, single, quietly funny and very good at getting through the day. What she isn’t good at is remembering all of it.

There are gaps in Ada’s life. Hours she can’t account for. Memories that arrive in fragments. Moments when the world seems to recede and Ada goes somewhere else entirely. She has learned to live around them.

Then her supervisor, Edward Middleton, disappears.

As police begin asking question, Ada is forced to examine a relationship she would rather forget. At the same time, she retreats further into an elaborate private world where Dracula’s chosen woman can surrender completely, abandon the ordinary world and be carried away beyond fear.

But the past is beginning to break through. What emerges forces Ada to confront not only what was done to her but the extraordinary ways the mind can protect itself from what it cannot bear to know.

Hidden is a dark, unsettling work of literary psychological suspense about memory, trauma, power and the dangerous truths we hide, even from ourselves.

(Content note: Hidden contains sexual violence, self-harm and references to suicide.)

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