First published 2023
Cassidy Bent has spent years avoiding the other survivors of the school bus crash that killed her classmates in a Tennessee ravine. She changed her phone number. She blocked their emails. She planned to skip this year's anniversary gathering at their usual Outer Banks house. Then she receives news that another survivor has died. Now only seven remain from the original nine who escaped the river that night. Cassidy drives to the reunion, torn between grief and growing suspicion. Something feels wrong this time. Amaya, who organizes their annual meetings, disappears as a storm approaches. The roads close. The waters rise. Amaya stops answering her phone. The remaining survivors face the same terror they thought they had left behind. Each promised long ago to protect the others. But as the storm traps them together, Cassidy wonders if one of them has been breaking that promise all along.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Tennessee, Outer Banks
Period: present-day
339 pages · Hardcover · Marysue Rucci Books
Content warnings: death