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Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery?

When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the idyllic Swiss Alps for a hiking holiday, it’s not just a chance to take in the stunning scenery. It’s an opportunity to reconnect with each other after years of drifting apart—and patch up marriages that are straining at the seams.

As they head into the mountains, morale is high, but as the terrain turns treacherous, cracks in the relationships start to show. With worrying signs that someone might be following them, the sun begins to set and exhaustion kicks in. Suddenly, lost high on a terrifying ridge, tensions spill over—with disastrous consequences.

When only two of the four hikers make it down from the mountain, the police press them for their story—but soon become suspicious when their accounts just don’t add up.

What really happened up on that ridge? Who are the survivors? And what secrets are they trying to hide?

Sometimes we love a recommended book; sometimes, not so much. And I think this is a book that you either love or hate.

I don’t know why I kept reading this book. All four of the main characters: Cat, her husband, Paul, her sister, Ginny, and Ginny’s husband Tristan, are pretty disagreeable characters. They each have their own account as to their relationships, but their stories don’t jive with each other’s. Who’s lying, and who’s telling the truth? Is anyone telling the truth?

We know right away that Cat has a plan, but what that plan is is not quite clear. The reader gets hints, but even Cat doesn’t always seem sure as to her course. Not that I can blame her. What she’s planning is pretty over the top. And who’s the dangerous stranger they meet who’s so taken by Cat?

Finally, at the end, well, I didn’t see this particular ending coming. It was a surprising twist that made the book well worth reading.

So thanks to

nakeisha for the recommendation.