Gideon Drake Oblivion English · Paperback / Softback

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Lena Valentine wanted to leave Ashford. When a violent night on County Route 14 ends with two drivers pulled from wreckage, Lena wakes in a hospital bed-and the world insists she's Margaret Hale.
Margaret moves into Lena's life with calm certainty: her face, her school, her parents' home. The police, the town, and even doctors accept the easier story of trauma and confusion, and Lena, trapped in a borrowed body, becomes the problem to manage. As official reports and small-town sympathies harden, Lena discovers journals and medical notes Margaret thought hidden-years of obsessive study, a timeline of selection, and a plan that treats identity as a solvable equation.
Now Lena must build proof from fragments: accident reports, witnesses, and the brittle patterns of Margaret's past. With time eating at the edges of her memories and systems siding against her, she learns the terrible truth-that identity can settle like a wound, and if she waits, the person she remembers may disappear entirely. Can she expose a calculated theft before the town buries her as a delusion? Or will the life she fought for become somebody else's after all?