Winner of the 2015 Drunken Druid Award (Ireland) for high literary merit.

Nominee for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award (HWA) in the First Novel category.

In a suburb on Boston's North Shore, a catatonic little girl is found behind a dumpster. She is a mystery. As Social Worker Debbie Gillan pieces together the puzzle of the child's identity, she discovers the child had disappeared two years earlier along with a twin sister. She also discovers HANNAHWHERE, an alternate world that is both a haven and a prison.... Life altering trauma becomes the key to unraveling the truth about the children, about Hannahwhere...and about Debbie herself. Truths that could either save them or destroy them all. In a suburb on Boston's North Shore, a catatonic little girl is found behind a dumpster. She is a mystery. As social worker Debbie Gillan pieces together the puzzle of the child's identity, she discovers the child had disappeared two years earlier along with a twin sister. She also discovers Hannahwhere, an alternate world that is both a haven and a prison. . . . Life-altering trauma becomes the key to unraveling the truth about the children, about Hannahwhere . . . and about Debbie herself. Truths that could either save them or destroy them all.


"Hannahwhere is a revelation....
-- F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of FEAR CITY

"Hannahwhere by John McIlveen is everything a book should be...I loved it!"
-- Heather Graham, New York Times bestselling author of THE HIDDEN