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At seventeen, art prodigy Adelaide Dupont discovers she is pregnant.

Her mother's cruel reaction cracks open a childhood Adelaide can't fully remember.

Her mind takes her back to the rambling Tudor mansion in privileged Summit, NJ, in the 1960s, where her childhood unfolded among gilded paintings, an artistic extended family-and buried secrets.

At eight, Adelaide escaped into the psychological safety of a diorama

she built from matchbox houses-a miniature version of her "perfect" picket-fence neighborhood.

As a teenager, Adelaide pushes through her dissociation as details

emerge: whispers through a bedroom wall, hidden rooms beyond the stairwells, and paintings in the basement studio she was never supposed to see.

As her memories unfold, 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 to either expose the

people she longs to love, or protect them at the cost of her 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.

But 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.