Description: People do not simply vanish from Dorley Hall. They are replaced.
When Stefan "Stef" Riley encounters a woman who looks uncannily like his missing childhood mentor, he begins to suspect that the disappearance he has been grieving for a year may not be the end of the story. Soon he notices a disturbing pattern: young men from a nearby university go missing, and years later, women who resemble them begin to appear, all living at the same secluded residence just off campus.
Dorley Hall is a privately run dormitory with its own rules, its own hierarchies, and a secret programme at its core. As Stef pushes closer to the truth, the story widens to include multiple viewpoints and buried histories, revealing how power is exercised, justified, and resisted within Dorley's walls.
Written by Alyson Greaves, The Sisters of Dorley began as an episodic online series and has grown into a cult phenomenon, inspiring a dedicated fan base, a reader-maintained wiki, and extensive fan fiction and artwork. Secrets of Dorley Hallis the highly anticipated second novel in the series, following Welcome to Dorley Hall. Blending psychological suspense with speculative fiction, this is a gripping exploration of control, complicity, and transformation.
Review Quotes: Reviews for Welcome to Dorley Hall:
"Dorley Hall delivers what I need from art: Alyson Greaves has developed an ethics on fantasy, self-creation, and authority that only a trans woman could have come up with, all while telling a story so intimate and psyche-gripping I had to remind myself to breathe." -- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
"Like biting into tart hard candy to find a surprisingly sweet center, this wildly original novel is a sly, subversive satire of toxic masculinity wrapped around the heartfelt story of a trans woman fighting to find genuine gender expression. Alyson Greaves's delicious debut is like nothing I've ever read before, and it deserves a place on every dark academia bookshelf." --Layne Fargo, author of They Never Learn
"Welcome To Dorley Hall gripped me in its first chapters and didn't let me go until the end. Alyson Greaves has written a morally complex and deeply humane novel that uses society's biggest fears about gender to explore fundamental questions about how it affects us all. I can't wait to read the rest of the series." -- Ray Stoeve, author of The Summer Love Strategy
"There's much to admire in this provocative blend of fairy tale and horror (...) Greaves deserves credit for crafting such a unique and darkly funny narrative. This one's hard to forget." -- Publishers Weekly
"An exploration of toxic masculinity, and the lengths some people might go to in the 'battle of the sexes'. It asks: what torture would you go through for gender affirming healthcare? When does reforming men become punishing them? How could trying to make men understand the challenges of women go too far?"-- LoveReading (a Debut of the Month in July 2024)