StudioStreets Press

At seventeen, art prodigy Adelaide Dupont discovers she is pregnant. Her mother’s cruel reaction cracks open a childhood Adelaide has spent years unable to fully remember.

Her memories lead back to the rambling Tudor mansion in privileged Summit, New Jersey, in the 1960s, where her picture-perfect childhood unfolded among gilded paintings, a loving extended family, sprawling gardens—and a room she would spend years trying to remember.

At eight, Adelaide escaped into the diorama she built from matchbox houses—a miniature version of her “perfect” picket-fence neighborhood. But behind the beauty lay buried secrets.

As a teenager, Adelaide pushes through her dissociation and begins to remember: whispers through a bedroom wall, hidden rooms beyond the stairwells, and oil paintings in the basement studio she was never supposed to see.

As her memories return, the people she has trusted all her life seem increasingly concerned about how much she recalls—willing to gaslight, threaten, and even have her institutionalized to keep her quiet.

A trail of clues and a race against time draw Adelaide into the high-stakes New York art world, where paintings and provenance aren’t the only things that can carry a false history.

As evidence of a crime mounts, she is forced into a Faustian bargain: expose the people she still longs to love, or protect them at the cost of the truth.

But Adelaide has another option.

She can frame them at their own game.

And doing so may require becoming part of the deception herself.

The deeper she looks, the more she questions what is real—her memories, her mother’s version of events, or something hidden in plain sight.

Inspired in part by true events and an unsolved mystery in the American art world.

A complex and haunting psychological narrative set against the humid, moss-draped backdrop of 1980s South Carolina. 

Most of us have felt it: the powerful, often naive, impulse to fight injustice, to shield the vulnerable, and to leave the world better than we found it. It is a drive that feels righteous, even pure. 

But what happens when that noble desire, unmoored from ethics and foresight, veers into the murky depths of the human psyche?

Jules Trainor’s psychological suspense, The Hunt for Mind Warriors, dissects this very impulse, exposing the dark and complicated side of benevolence. 

We are introduced to Madigan Sommers, a brilliant but troubled psychology student in 1987 South Carolina. Haunted by a past steeped in poverty and mental illness, he embarks on a clandestine mission to provide free, unlicensed counseling to his fellow undergrads. 

This single, well-intentioned act becomes the first tremor in a devastating psychological earthquake.