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Hidden Words

by Christine Roy

Secrets across two timelines

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Secrets across two timelines

Set between 1994 and the present, Hidden Words links the experiences of Ben Barrows, a student at a Massachusetts preparatory school whose life is shaped by dance and fractured relationships, and Joey, who discovers he can hear the unspoken thoughts of those around him. Joey’s ability connects him to his father and opens a path into the family’s past. The novel combines a speculative mystery with questions of inherited trauma, silence, and family abuse, using its two timelines to bring earlier secrets into the present. The description notes mature themes, including trauma and sensitive interpersonal relationships.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Mature young adult and adult readers interested in speculative mysteries and family secrets.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving dance and performing arts.
  • Readers comfortable with themes of trauma, family abuse, and sensitive interpersonal relationships.

Themes

Inherited traumaFamily secrets and silenceDance and performing artsSpeculative mystery

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Book overview

 

HIDDEN WORDS

A Novel by Award-Winning Author Christine Roy

Some secrets don't stay buried. They wait for the right mind to hear them.

In 1994, on the rocky shores of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Ben Barrows begins his senior year at Masters' Preparatory like a dead man walking, half his friendships already over, just not yet buried. Then Dana Kirkland arrives: a new student, a rival dancer to his powerful ex-girlfriend, and the one person who might save him. Together, Ben and Dana try to hold on to love against a tidal wave of pain and treachery neither of them saw coming.

In the present, Joey Barrows is drowning in grief. As he crosses the graduation stage, a terrifying gift awakens, the unspoken words of everyone around him, pouring uninvited into his mind. When Joey discovers his distant, unstable father shares this same curse, the door to a devastating past swings open, releasing secrets, obsession, and ghosts that refuse to stay silent.

Told across two timelines, Hidden Words is a gothic, speculative mystery about the inheritance of trauma - and the terrible cost of truths left unspoken.

Perfect for fans ofWe Were Liars, Black Swan, and The Turnout.

 

Hidden Words deals with mature themes including trauma, family abuse, and sensitive interpersonal relationships. Recommended for mature young adult and adult readers.

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