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The HideAWay
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Irish Rivers
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For years, Anya has learned to disappear inside her own life.
Every movement is calculated. Every word is measured. Every breath is held just a little too long. In Mark's house, love looks like control, and survival means becoming smaller, quieter, less-until she's almost forgotten the woman she used to be.
The woman who painted wildflowers. Who laughed barefoot under the stars. Who once felt safe in her own skin.
But when Anya discovers a matchbox from a place called The HideAway-a sanctuary she visited years ago, before Mark rewrote the boundaries of her world-something shifts. A memory surfaces. A possibility whispers. And tucked inside a hollowed book, a burner phone holds the key to a life she thought was lost forever.
One email. One bus ticket. One backpack filled with stolen grocery money and fragile hope.
Two thousand miles separate Anya from everything she's known-and from the man who will come looking. With each mile, she sheds another layer of the woman Mark created, reclaiming pieces of herself she thought were gone: her voice, her choices, her right to exist without fear.
Waiting at the end of that long road is Ruth Evergreen and The HideAway-a refuge nestled in the Montana wilderness where broken souls come to heal, where questions aren't asked but kindness is freely given, and where Anya will discover that the hardest journey isn't the one away from abuse, but the one back to herself.
The HideAway is a luminous story of survival and transformation, of finding sanctuary not just in a place, but in the quiet, defiant act of choosing yourself. It's a reminder that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is strike a match in the darkness-and trust that someone will be there to meet you in the light.
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