I almost didn’t come.
Even with the free champagne, the five-star resort, the promise of closure.
Even though it’s fifteen years since we all finished high school.
But now I’m here. Snowed in.
And someone’s already dead.
It should’ve been a reunion. Laughter. Memories. Old friends — even if
they never really saw me. But our old prom dates are waiting tables. Our teachers are lurking in corridors. And one by one, the people I once called friends are acting like we’re back in school. There are eight of us.
There were eight of us then.
But one vanished after prom.
And someone knows what really happened that night. They invited us here for a reason.
And they’re not going to let us leave.
Sonya Bateman is an award-winning copywriter and novelist, a mid-eighties to late-nineties fantasy movie enthusiast, coffee hoarder, and collector of cool rocks who spent a not-insignificant portion of her childhood climbing trees in order to read books in peace. She grew up in Central New York, where the seasons are Winter and Road Construction and “not the city” is officially part of everyone’s address.
Sonya has been writing professionally for more than 15 years. She currently lives in a big house in a little city, still in Central New York (not the city), with her husband, son, and feline overlords. She writes fast-
paced urban fantasy and twisty, shocking psychological fiction that may leave you suspicious of your friends and neighbors—and sleeping with the lights on.
My thoughts: We don’t really do high school reunions in the UK, thankfully. There aren’t a huge number of people I’d want to see again, those I do I am by and large still in contact with.
But they do seem a popular thing in films, books and TV shows (I don’t know how realistic that is) in the States. And having read this, I’m not sure why. You change a huge amount after leaving school, hopefully. And going back in time, no thank you.
Desiree isn’t entirely sure why she’s decided to attend this reunion, she’s avoided all the previous ones, but here she is, in a luxury resort at the top of a mountain in the snow with some of her old “friends”.
And someone has arranged for her a selection of other old faces from school to be there too, and the events of that rather dramatic prom night – where one student died and another disappeared – are brought shockingly back to them.
Terrifying moments are in store for the assembled group, someone wants revenge and is willing to kill for it.
Gripping, with its mysteries and twists, it will make you glad your high school days weren’t quite so dramatic (I hope).
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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