Both Hiding

By Dane Corliss

Fourteen-year-old Eli Vorhees is hiding in the Pennsylvania state forest from the police and from the thieves he stole from to eat. When a streak of light crashes through the trees, he finds an alien too incompetent to repair his own ship. The unfixable craft is worth enough to clear Eli's debt and buy his freedom-if he can convince the crew that wants him dead to take it.

The only problem: the alien, Mort, is the first being who has ever truly seen Eli as more than a problem to be solved or a debt to be collected. Trading the ship means doing to his only friend exactly what the world has always done to him.

A haunting literary thriller of found friendship and impossible choice, Both Hiding follows Eli and Mort from bungled mutual evasion through a debt-fueled heist that spirals into national-security pursuit. Eli's only way out requires a third path no one walks clean. For fans of Liz Moore, Tana French, Jane Harper, and Marcus Sakey.

(Upper-YA / adult crossover. 77,000 words.)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H93GYMNP
• ISBN13: 9798187515493
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"