From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing
Girls and "master of suspense, Megan Miranda" (Mary Kubica, New York
Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery
about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth
anniversary of a tragic accident--only to have one of the survivors
disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.
Seven hours in the past. Seven days in the present. Seven survivors
remaining. Who would you save?
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school
service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--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
commemorate that terrible night.
To keep one another safe.
To hold one another accountable.
Or both.
Their annual meeting 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 number. She's blocked the others' email addresses.
This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But
on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary
attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven--and Cassidy
finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief--and
suspicion.
Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first
to notice when Amaya, 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?
And--as they promised long ago--each survivor will do whatever he or she
can do to save one another. Won't they?
A propulsive and chilling locked-box mystery filled with the dazzling
hairpin twists that are the author's signature, The Only Survivors is
New York Times-bestselling author Megan Miranda's best novel yet.
