The compulsive new thriller frommultimillion-selling NYT bestselling author Jennifer Niven.

Eight studentswalk into anexclusive writers retreat, but only one will walk out with alife-changing opportunityto realize theircreative dreams.

Effyis piecing together a story about thetragic betrayalthat led to her mothers death.Arlohopes to publish anovel but hes also trying to start a new chapter with Effy after hebroke her heartandghosted herthree years earlier.

Their mentor isMeredith Graffam, enigmaticwriter, director and actress, whose compelling accounts of her ownnear-death experienceon the same retreat decades before continue to sparkcontroversy.

But this celebrated teacher is not all she seems, and her students gradually realize they are fighting for something much more primal thanacademic advantage. As Graffamsunorthodox teaching methodspush them pastbreaking point, they reveal theirdarkest secrets, takeunthinkable risks, and slowly start to turn on one another. But Graffam never expected they would turn onher. . .