Shadow Creek: A Novel

An Unlikely Group Of Campers Including A Woman, Her Two Oddball Friends, Her Teen Daughter And Her Ex's Fiancé Embark On A Trip In The Adirondacks Only To Be Targeted By A Pair Of Teenage Killers. Joy Fielding.

Author : Joy Fielding

Publisher : Atria/emily Bestler Books

Published Year : 2012-12-04

Format : print - Hardcover, 384 pages

Subject : Campers (Persons), Campers (Persons)--Fiction, Teenages, Teenages--Fiction, Murderers, Murderers--Fiction, PR9199.3.F518 S53 2012, 813/.54

Language : English

Dimensions : x, 367 p. ; 24 cm.

ISBN : 1451688156

ISBN13 : 9781451688153

Overview :

There’s something deadly lurking in the shadows at Shadow Creek . . .

Due to a last-minute change in plans, a group of unlikely traveling companions finds themselves on a camping trip in the Adirondacks. They include the soon-to-be-divorced Valerie; her oddball friends, Melissa and James; her moody teenage daughter, Brianne; and Val’s estranged husband’s fiancée, Jennifer. Val is dealing with unresolved feelings toward her ex and grappling with jealousy and resentment toward his younger, prettier new flame, a woman with some serious issues of her own. Brianne is sixteen and openly rebellious, caught up in a web of secrets and lies.

What Val and her companions don’t know is that a pair of crazed killers is wreaking havoc in the very same woods. When an elderly couple is found slaughtered and Brianne goes missing, Val finds herself in a nightmare much worse than anything she could have anticipated. She was half-expecting it to be the trip from hell, but what she never could have predicted was that this impromptu little excursion