1950s
2035
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book club fiction
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female protagonist
fiction
forthcoming
friendship
housewife
identity crisis
memory loss
mental health
mental hospital
mystery
psychological thriller
sci fi
science fiction
thriller
time
time travel
Virginia
Washington DC
Product details
- ISBN 9781250358653
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 137 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Now in paperback, a gripping psychological thriller with a speculative twist about a young woman teetering on the edge. Virginia, 1954. When a woman wakes on a patient transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital, she remembers nothing of her life before that moment, none of the dark things she must’ve seen and done that forged her into the skilful and cunning fighter she is. Doctors tell her she’s Dorothy Frasier, a paranoid schizophrenic, committed for her violent delusions. She’s certain they’re wrong—until disturbing visions of a dystopian future in which frantic scientists urge her to complete “the mission” and save mankind begin to invade her reality. Believing it’s the hospital causing the hallucinations, she tells no one and focuses only on escaping—until there’s a visitor. A man whose loving face—and touch—she remembers, a man who knows all about her visions, because he’s spent years helping her cope with them: her husband, Paul Frasier. Now she’s sure of nothing, caught between two realities. Believe in the future, and she might save the world. Believe in her husband and doctors’ plans for her treatment, and she might save herself. She needs answers, but to get them she’ll have to harness the darkness inside her as she risks her freedom, her mind, and ultimately her life in a heart-stopping quest for the truth.
