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A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravin-a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemermorate that terrible night. To keep one another safe. To hole one another accountable. Or both. Their annual meetig place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy, and from the other survivors. She's changed her mobile numger. She's blocked the other's email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reuion, she recieves a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven-and Cassidy finds herself hurting back toward the group, wild with grief-and suspicion. Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, the annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn't raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they're facing the threat of closed roads and surging waters...again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they've been through, she wouldn't willfully make them worry. Would she? |
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