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Every disappearance leaves a trace... The second in an electrifying thriller series about gender identity.‘So intimate and psyche-gripping I had to remind myself to breathe’ Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby on the seriesWhen Stefan “Stef” Riley encounters a woman who looks uncannily like his missing childhood mentor, he begins to suspect that the disappearance he has been grieving for a year may not be the end of the story. Soon he notices a disturbing pattern: young men from a nearby university go missing, and years later, women who resemble them begin to appear, all living at the same secluded residence just off campus.Dorley Hall is a privately run dormitory with its own rules, its own hierarchies, and a secret programme at its core. As Stef pushes closer to the truth, the story widens to include multiple viewpoints and buried histories, revealing how power is exercised, justified, and resisted within Dorley’s walls.Written by Alyson Greaves, The Sisters of Dorley began as an episodic online series and has grown into a cult phenomenon, inspiring a dedicated fan base, a reader-maintained wiki, and extensive fan fiction and artwork. Secrets of Dorley Hall is the highly anticipated second novel in the series, following Welcome to Dorley Hall.Blending psychological suspense with speculative fiction, this is a gripping exploration of control, complicity and transformation.

What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely?Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day he disappears without a trace. A year later, after encountering a woman who looks near-identical to Mark, Stefan becomes obsessed. He finds that dozens of young men have disappeared over the years, many of them students at the Royal College of Saint Almsworth, and most of them troubled or unruly. Why are students going missing? Who are these women who bear striking resemblances to them? And what is their connection to the selective student accommodation on the edge of campus, Dorley Hall?Stefan starts studying at Saint Almsworth for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to get it to happen to him, too.An electrifying début by Alyson Greaves, Welcome to Dorley Hall is an intense exploration of gender and society that will appeal to readers of Torrey Peters, Imogen Binnie and Gretchen Felker-Martin.