The Hiding Season by A.C. Glass

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By Karen Slammon


The Hiding Season

The Hiding Season is a thrilling, road trip story. This book has everything, a flawed handsome hero, exciting car chases, a race against time, a hot romance and a multitude of clever twists.

Heartbroken writer and teacher, Maya Landry flees to Bozeman, Montana. After losing everything she holds dear, she attempts to start a new life, but things don’t work out. Desperate for money, she accepts a well-paid cleaning job. Big Sky Land Management owns The Gateway, an exclusive development that requires a cleaner, the only stipulation is that the person hired is able to handle isolation. For a someone with nothing, it’s the perfect opportunity for Maya to lose herself until she’s ready to rebuild her life.

The Gateway`s individual luxury lodges are totally private and situated off the beaten track up the mountains. Their owners have specific requirements tailored to their needs. It`s just Maya and Ed, a lone security guard working the vast site. Maya receives individual codes to each lodge, and she quickly establishes her cleaning rota, never alternating her system. Until she does and that moment changes everything. She discovers a dead body in the luxury lodge she’s cleaning. Maya flees down the mountain to raise the alarm but when she returns with the police, the body has vanished without a trace. No one believes her, except for an FBI agent, Riley Maguire. And now the killer is coming for her. Riley and Maya embark on a high-octane chase across America`s Midwest. Thrown together, is she imagining the attraction between her and this gorgeous man?

A Foolish Mistake

Arriving in Denver, a new life and identity await, thanks to a tiny circle of Riley`s trusted contacts. Maya reinvents herself as Lara Gibson and settles in Austin, Texas. A year later, content in her new life, she still thinks about Riley. Then a foolish mistake brings unwanted attention endangering everyone she loves. Riley must intervene again; the attraction is instant and soon reaches fever pitch. Riley and Maya must flee but the net is closing fast. Who is Anthony Cleary? How is he involved in what happened in Montana? More importantly, who can she really trust, the Enigmatic Riley who swears he`ll protect her at all costs or the effortlessly cool Amber who appears in the most unexpected of places. Someone is lying and when the devastating truth is revealed, Maya morphs from a frightened timid girl into a woman who takes control of her own destiny. Could facing up to the truth be the bravest thing for her?

The Hiding Season is a fascinating, menacing and thrilling read, while full of intrigue, romance is at the heart of it. A.C. Glass has created vibrant characters, with flaws that evoke empathy on every step of their frantic journey. The story is told from Maya`s point of view and flows well The combination of snappy dialogue and intense action paces the story brilliantly. I was instantly captivated by the story and loved it`s twisty end . I highly recommend this book.

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(c) Karen Slammon 2026

The Hiding Season is published by Century Books in the U.K and Ballantine Books in the U.S . Order your copy online here.

Read more from Karen Slammon on Writing.ie here.

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