First published 2023
Charity Curtis landed her dream summer job playing the final girl at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay good money to be terrified in this full-contact horror experience. Charity and her crew reenact scenes from the classic slasher film Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more genuine the fear, the better the business. But during the final weekend of the season, Charity's coworkers start vanishing. When one turns up dead, her role as final girl stops being an act. Charity and her girlfriend Bezi must survive the night while uncovering what the killer wants. They need to discover whether Mirror Lake harbors secrets about its deadly history that Charity never knew existed.
Genres: mystery, horror, thriller, young-adult
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Camp Mirror Lake
Period: final-weekend-of-the-season
230 pages · Hardcover · Bloomsbury YA
Content warnings: death, violence