Ellen Parker is taking a long overdue vacation in Coalville, Pennsylvania, testing her healing after last year's brutal events. Coalville is a small town noted, in the summer of 2014, for its antique stores, bed and breakfasts, and - most recently - ugly death. A tragic plane crash the month before has drawn the attention of hunters from both sides of the law, all looking for something hidden on the plane, something now missing. Initially focused on her own healing and an interest in a handsome man from New York, soon Ellen is aware of the growing danger of the hunters willing to kill for things hidden and revealed. Despite her FBI friend Karen Deevers on the case, Ellen is alone when the hunters close in, for she has placed herself between them and the hidden thing they seek.Steven M. Silver, Ph.D. is the author of the multi-volume Wild Geese Saga science fiction series, three books of poetry, and co-author of a book on psychotherapy ("Light in the Heart of Darkness: EMDR and the Treatment of War and Terrorism Survivors"). "Hidden Things" is the fourth of the Ellen Parker novels, the first being "A Dangerous Man," followed by "Killers" and "Woman On the Wire."