Hidden Words

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*For mature YA readers. *Trigger warning. Hidden Words deals with mature themes including trauma, family abuse, and sensitive interpersonal relationships. Recommended for mature young adult and adult audiences. In 1994, on the rocky shores of beautiful, mysterious Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Ben Barrows begins his senior year at Masters’ Preparatory like a dead man walking. Half of his friendships are over; they just haven’t been buried yet. When Ben is drawn to Dana Kirkland, a new student and rival dancer to his powerful ex-girlfriend, life forever changes for them both. Troubled souls, each bearing the weight of their own vulnerabilities, Dana and Ben must try to hold on to love against a tidal wave of pain and treachery. In the present, Joey Barrows, sensitive and secretive in regard to danger in his pain, drowns in grief, unaware of the dark undercurrent threatening what remains of his life. As Joey walks across the stage at graduation, he is further overwhelmed by the onset of a telepathic gift that projects the unspoken words of others into his mind. When Joey learns his distant, unstable father Ben shares this gift/curse, the door to a tragic past re-open, spilling secrets and a burning trail of obsession that not even the ghosts among them can stop.

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Public

Genres

Formats

epub

Review deadline

2026-12-31

Reading period

2026-10-19 — No end date

Maximum readers

Unlimited