If You Must Hide

Nadia is familiar with pain. She’s navigated it all her life—she knows how to minimise it, manage it, explain it away, and keep going. She’s learned to love without asking for too much.

But when a traumatic evening lands her in the hospital, nursing an ankle injury, she begins a journey of unravelling—confronting questions she’s avoided for years and reconsidering what love has been asking of her.

And it’s a little overwhelming. And beautiful. And strange. And intense.

If You Must Hide is a slow-burn contemporary romance about love as a place—where being seen feels safer than hiding, and being wanted feels liberating, not demanding.