Could you clarify the author’s name? If this is a well-known title, I can also check if it’s in the public domain (unlikely for most modern works). Let me know how you’d like to proceed.

Hudson employs a dual-timeline narrative, a device that has become commonplace in modern fiction, yet she wields it with surgical precision here. In the present timeline, we follow the protagonist—often unnamed or intimately vague, acting as a mirror for the reader—as she navigates the sterile, gray aftermath of a significant loss. In the past, we are transported to the "secret places": the hidden coves, the quiet apartments, and the transient hotel rooms that served as the backdrop for a passionate, albeit clandestine, love affair.