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Sixteen years after high school, Mara Ellison finally accepts an invitation she has avoided again and again: a reunion of the Briarwood Eight at Blackpine Summit, an isolated luxury resort high in Oregon's Silverpeak Range. The setting is beautiful, expensive, and almost impossible to leave without help. For Mara, it is also filled with people who know versions of her past she has spent years trying to bury. Their old clique never recovered from senior prom night, when outsider Ethan Crowley died and their charismatic leader, Celeste Warren, vanished. Police called Ethan's death a suicide. Celeste was never found. Now a popular true-crime podcast is asking whether the two events were connected and whether one of the Briarwood Eight knows more than they admitted. At the resort, old hierarchies return with unsettling ease. So do rivalries, guilt, resentment, and secrets that could destroy carefully rebuilt lives. Then the reunion stops feeling nostalgic and starts feeling engineered. Communications fail. Questions become accusations. And when someone in the group dies, the mountain retreat becomes a closed circle with a killer somewhere inside it. Mara came to Blackpine Summit carrying a secret of her own and hoping to face the past on her terms. To survive the week, she may have to reveal exactly what she has spent sixteen years hiding, before someone else decides which member of the Briarwood Eight gets to leave the mountain alive.
Sixteen years after high school, Mara Ellison finally accepts an invitation she has avoided again and again: a reunion of the Briarwood Eight at Blackpine Summit, an isolated luxury resort high in Oregon's Silverpeak Range. The setting is beautiful, expensive, and almost impossible to leave witho...
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