She survived captivity once. Now someone's recreating her nightmare—and baiting her to live it again.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Ava Locke still checks locks at 3 AM. Still wakes from nightmares of her hellish abduction. When the FBI calls about a missing woman at an isolated mountain retreat for trauma survivors, every instinct screams RUN.
But when duty calls Ava answers.
At Pinewood Haven, nothing adds up. Professor Elliot Ward can't remember how he arrived. A staff counselor vanishes from a locked room. And someone is leaving mysterious notes with private details of Ava's captivity.
Snowed in and unable to leave, the danger escalates.
More survivors are targeted. Their past trauma twisted into something darker. And whoever is orchestrating this nightmare has been planning it for years.
Having spent years learning to overcome her past, will Ava survive facing it again and stop a predator with a twisted desire to make her the next victim who never escapes?
Genre: Mystery
Forensic psychologist Dr. Ava Locke still checks locks at 3 AM. Still wakes from nightmares of her hellish abduction. When the FBI calls about a missing woman at an isolated mountain retreat for trauma survivors, every instinct screams RUN.
But when duty calls Ava answers.
At Pinewood Haven, nothing adds up. Professor Elliot Ward can't remember how he arrived. A staff counselor vanishes from a locked room. And someone is leaving mysterious notes with private details of Ava's captivity.
Snowed in and unable to leave, the danger escalates.
More survivors are targeted. Their past trauma twisted into something darker. And whoever is orchestrating this nightmare has been planning it for years.
Having spent years learning to overcome her past, will Ava survive facing it again and stop a predator with a twisted desire to make her the next victim who never escapes?
Genre: Mystery
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