Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window This swift, red-blooded thriller set my pulse thrumming.'-A. 'Breathtaking-brightly written, scalpel-sharp, and altogether inspired. 'Sager's second thriller is as tense and twisty as bestselling Final Girls (2017), but this one is even more polished, with gut-wrenching plot surprises skillfully camouflaged by Emma's paranoia and confusion, the increasingly creepy setting, and a cast of intriguingly secretive characters.'- Booklist (starred review) 'The author delivers the kind of unpredictable conclusion that all thriller readers crave-utterly shocking yet craftily foreshadowed.'- The New York Times Book Review But her closure could come at a deadly price. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, although the security camera pointed at her door is a disturbing new addition.Īs cryptic clues about the camp's origins begin to surface, Emma attempts to find out what really happened to her friends. Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor.ĭespite her guilt and anxiety-or maybe because of them-Emma agrees to revisit her past.

The last she-or anyone-saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.įifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings-massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses.

But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Description THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERįrom the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that's impossible to forget-no matter how hard you try.

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