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Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for.Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings - heirs to a copper fortune - gather at their luxury winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's a tradition they've followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the spotlight of a recent public scandal.With lavish comforts, gorgeous scenery, and indulgent drinking, the trip should be the perfect escape. But it soon becomes clear that even a remote idyllic getaway can't keep out the problems simmering in each of their lives - or reminders of a past tragedy at the estate. As old tensions are reignited, the three couples are pushed to the edge. Will their secrets destroy them, or will they destroy each other first? And who's been watching them from beyond the vineyard gates? When a torrential rainstorm hits, plunging them into darkness, the answers prove all too deadly .
About the Author
TARA LASKOWSKI is the author of the suspense novel, One Night Gone, which won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Lefty Award and the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also the author of two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders, which was named a best book of 2017 by Jennifer Egan in The Guardian. She has had stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review, and the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, among others. Her Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine story, "The Case of the Vanishing Professor," won the 2019 Agatha Award and her Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine story, "The Long-Term Tenant," is a finalist for the 2020 Thriller Award. Tara was the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project's Literary Awards Prize and was the longtime editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia. Follow her on Twitter, @TaraLWrites.
