In a brief sentence explaining this book: A pregnant woman with a stressful life meets an unhinged nurse after a car accident and their worlds collide in a way that is not in favor of the pregnant woman. 

 

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and her only wish is to make a good life for herself and her unborn daughter. After an upsetting meeting with the sperm donor father of her child (who is an absolute loser), she heads out to stay with her brother for a few weeks and hopes to deliver her daughter and figure out what to do with her life now that she will support this baby alone without financial stability. In a desperate decision due to lack of money, she decides to get one more workday done before she leaves to see her brother turns out to be the worst mistake of her life as she drives straight into a nasty New England blizzard. 

 

Losing control of her car in a whiteout, she crashes her car into a tree and is hurt. In a panic, she knows she cannot walk, but her car also is out of commission. She fears she will die in the cold before she is discovered in the storm, but a very large scary man sees her car off the road and offers to help her. This is when her nightmare begins, and she never arrives at her destination. Now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child.

 

This was an Instagram book club pick and also is when you should take other people's opinions with a grain of salt because I saw a bunch of negative reviews of this book, and I do not agree with them. I really enjoyed it. I saw a few references saying it was just like Misery by Stephen King. The only similarity to his book is the blizzard and accident. The rest of this story is nothing like that book and I was happy with how it ended as well. I don't want to get into more detail since I hate it when I read a review and see spoilers, so I will not do that.

Am I glad to have read this book? Yes