The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
2,588-word summary · 12 min read
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She's Come Undone
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
My Dark Vanessa
Vanessa recalls teacher Strane abuse as adult reckoning looms.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Speak
After calling police at a party, ninth grader Melinda stops speaking until art helps her tell.
2,073-word summary · 9 min read
Bared to You
Eva starts over in New York and falls for Gideon Cross, whose past mirrors her own trauma.
2,471-word summary · 11 min read
Archer's Voice
Bree flees to Pelion, Maine and falls for Archer Hale, a mute recluse hiding a violent family past.
2,787-word summary · 12 min read
Hopeless
Homeschooled Sky starts public school and falls for Holder, whose past links to hers in painful ways.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
A Little Life
Four friends in New York orbit Jude, whose hidden past of abuse shapes every page of this 720-page epic.
1,972-word summary · 9 min read