Synopsis:

Cold Creek Highway has a long and dark history. For decades, women have gone missing...or worse. Hailey McBride is seventeen and living in an unbearable environment. Thus, she decides the only answer is to flee into the Cold Creek wilderness, counting on the outdoor skills her father passed down for survival. In an alternative perspective, one year later, Beth Chevalier enters Cold Creek to attend a memorial for the highway victims. Beth's own sister was murdered there the previous summer, and she finds herself getting a job at the same local diner her sister worked at.  As she gets closer to piecing together the truth of last summer, she realizes she's up against more darkness and lies than she ever imagined. 


My thoughts:

This book really kept me guessing!  Surprising and intense, it's a suspense read that I had fun attempting to piece together before the big reveal. This was an emotional read as well.  What these women went through was horrific. Sometimes my HSP (highly sensitive person) traits sneak up on me when I'm reading, and it happened in some of the details of violence in this book, and I found I had to take a breather.  It's odd because I've read other things that have just as much, if not more detail, and I've been able to plow ahead, so I think it was just a timing thing...but maybe good to know if you're a fellow HSP.