When Ashley recognises the face of a murdered woman on the news – someone who looks uncannily like her – her world begins to crack open. Haunted by a brutal assault from her past and trapped in a failing marriage, Ashley makes a desperate choice: travel to the Peruvian jungle in search of healing through an ancient plant medicine ceremony.
But what begins as a spiritual retreat soon spirals into a terrifying confrontation with memory, identity, and the one truth she’s never dared admit. As visions intensify and reality blurs, Ashley sees the unthinkable: the face of her attacker. It’s someone she knows intimately. Someone she trusts.
Now she must decide. Will she unearth the truth, no matter the cost? Or keep it buried, and risk becoming the next woman lost to silence?
The Medicine is a taut, emotionally charged thriller about trauma, trust, and the dangerous secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
Emma Dhesi writes women’s fiction set in Scotland about motherhood, secrets, and transformation – emotional stories of women finding the strength to rebuild their lives when everything falls apart.View all by Emma Dhesi
