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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: A fresh start—and a strange gift
Chapter 3: The entrance opens
Chapter 4: House rules collide with Teddy’s drawings
Chapter 5: Anya turns into a presence
Chapter 6: The summer that looks like a future
Chapter 7: A hand that isn’t from a child
Chapter 8: Two new allies—and a caution
Chapter 9: The talking board that shouldn’t have worked
Chapter 10: When images push back
Chapter 11: The night the walls filled in
Chapter 12: Ciphers, cautions, and a corpse in the woods
Chapter 13: The archives, the code, and a phone call
Chapter 14: The reality doesn’t fit the legend
Chapter 15: Everything shatters at once
Chapter 16: After the flashing lights
Chapter 17: A softer kind of ending
Description
Hidden Pictures is a fast, eerie, and surprisingly tender thriller about a young woman fighting to trust herself again. Mallory, twenty-one and twenty months sober, accepts a live-in nanny job in Spring Brook, New Jersey. Teddy, the five-year-old in her care, is shy, bright, and obsessed with drawing. At first the pictures are horses and trees. Soon they’re a man dragging a woman’s body through the forest under a starry sky. Mallory suspects an old local legend: a woman named Annie vanished from the property in the late 1940s. As the drawings grow disturbingly realistic, Mallory realizes Teddy is sketching in a style no little kid could master. She sets a hidden camera, consults a prickly neighbor psychic, confides in a landscaper who might become more than a friend, and takes on two polished parents with secrets of their own. What she finds upends the town myth—and her own sense of reality. This is a story about recovery, maternal love, buried crimes, and how far people will go to protect a child, even when the truth is staring right at them in black charcoal lines.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of twisty, heartfelt thrillers with a brush of the supernatural
- Listeners who like flawed, brave protagonists and small-town secrets
- Book clubs that enjoy debating motive, memory, and moral gray areas