Seven All Alone
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Publisher Description
From the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister? comes another gripping thriller that follows seven teens stranded together on a trip in the mountains, cut off from civilization, and hunted by an unknown killer who wants them dead.
Maggie Atkins will never forget what happened in that cave ten years ago when she and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped by their bus driver and kept captive. She will never forget that her friends left her alone to escape, or the image of her kidnapper falling to his death, but she has done her best to put the ordeal behind her and move on.
Her past catches up with her when she’s forced to go on a school trip to the mountains with the very same people who abandoned her, and only a stone’s throw away from the scene of her kidnapping. She’s determined to suck it up and get through it though since it’s only one night of her life. But then a brutal storm changes everything and separates her group from their chaperone. With no phones and a limited food supply, the group strategizes how they can survive the elements and make it back to safety.
Then they realize there is someone else on the mountain. Someone who knows what really happened all those years ago. Someone who wants them dead and is willing to take them out one by one. Maggie thought she’d already survived the worst thing she would ever go through—she was wrong.
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Seven teens returning to the scene of a traumatic memory must evade an unknown assailant in this formulaic survival thriller by McKay (Have You Seen My Sister?). A prologue details the kidnapping of Maggie and her six elementary school classmates. After the others escape captivity in the Scottish Highlands and leave Maggie behind, a later encounter between the six-year-old and her kidnapper culminates in her captor falling off a cliff. Ten years later, the youths, now teenagers, head back into the Highlands for a school-sanctioned camping trip chaperoned by Maggie's math teacher father. While most of the company overcomes their first mountain obstacle—a river crossing—via boat, the vessel is soon carried downstream by the fast-moving rapids with only Maggie's father and classmate Ant on board. Now stranded, the six remaining teens take shelter in a seemingly abandoned shepherd's hut, waiting for the pair to return. But as the weather worsens and their lost companions fail to appear, things go from bad to worse. Maggie's emotional strength and vulnerability, and her desire to overcome feelings of abandonment brought about by people she believed were her friends, make up the core of this high-stakes whodunit. Maggie and Ant read as white. Ages 12–17.
