This book releases on January 21st, 2025
From the acclaimed author of The Rosewood Hunt comes a thrilling new stand-alone mystery (with romance!), following a high school senior who’s forced to team up with her brooding ex to survive their elite school’s high stakes wilderness competition.
Chloe Gatti is about to graduate from an elite boarding school and attend her top-choice university—but none of it matters if she can’t save her sister from a rare diagnosis that requires access to specialty doctors her family can’t afford. But Chloe can get the money if she wins the Wilde Trials. Each year, a dozen seniors are chosen to compete in seven ultimate tests, and the champion takes home over half a million dollars.
Chloe will do whatever it takes to win. But her competition is fierce, including her brooding ex-boyfriend, Hayes Stratford, whose brother was the only student to ever die in the trials. When someone starts sabotaging and blackmailing Chloe, she’s forced to strike a deal with Hayes—if he helps her find out who’s sabotaging her, she’ll help him uncover the mystery surrounding his brother’s death.
Putting their strained history on hold, Chloe and Hayes piece together the clues Hayes’s brother left behind, leading them to discover that something isn’t right about the Wilde Trials. As they near the truth and the end of the competition, with a life-changing prize hanging over their heads and no idea who to trust, Chloe will have to decide what’s really worth fighting for, and if the cost of competing outweighs the potential consequences, even if that includes ending up like Hayes’s brother—dead.