Never trust the smile.
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES. BUT NOT EVERYONE DESERVES DEATH.
Alex Rivers wanted a week in the woods, the four friends together for the first time in two years. His parents made him bring his little brother.
Before the first night is over, one of them is dead, and the rest are lost in the rain, knocking on the door of a mansion. A man with a warm smile takes them in. Almost normal. Dry clothes, a warm bed, thirty empty rooms to choose from.
By morning, everyone suspects everyone else. The question isn’t who is hunting them. It’s how many of them will make it out.
Jamie is thirteen. He has seen things, and he thinks he knows what kind of story this is. He says nothing—not to the others, and not to the brother who didn’t want him there.
As the number dwindles, the sky will fall apart.
For readers who like fast-paced horror they can finish in one night, with short chapters and lean, tense prose. Perfect for fans of psychological slashers, isolated settings, cat-and-mouse survival stories and endings that leave you uneasy.
