The Last Session: A Broken Pines Thriller Book One (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184687544)

Everyone came to Broken Pines to heal.

One of them came to kill.

Mara Ellison used to be the kind of journalist who chased the truth no matter who it hurt. Then Hannah Vale vanished, leaving behind a wrecked car, blood in a ravine, and one deleted voicemail Mara never admitted existed. The world blamed Mara for exposing a woman who was trying to disappear. Mara blamed herself for answering too late.

One year later, that deleted voicemail comes back.

This time, Hannah is warning her not to trust anyone-especially her own sister.

The message leads Mara to Broken Pines, an exclusive recovery retreat hidden deep in the mountains, where wealthy guests come to confess, recover, and rewrite the stories that ruined them. No phones. No outside contact. No way out once the storm takes the road.

But Broken Pines is not a retreat.

It is a locked room with better lighting.

Inside, Mara finds a famous therapist with too many secrets, a grieving sister who may be lying, a former prosecutor with a buried case, a privacy expert who knows too much, an influencer hiding a child she cannot remember, and a driver who recognizes Mara from a visit she swears never happened.

Then the first recording plays.

Mara has been here before.

Under another name.

Mercy.

As the doors lock, the power fails, and the confession rooms begin opening one by one, Mara is forced to solve a murder that may not have happened, save a girl who may not be who she claims, and confront the terrifying possibility that the most dangerous person at Broken Pines is the version of herself who remembers everything.

Every confession is a weapon.

Every guest is connected.

Every locked room has a body waiting for the truth.

And when the final session begins, Mara must decide what matters more: exposing the story that destroyed her life or saving the children hidden inside it.

Fast-paced, twisty, darkly witty, and packed with locked-room suspense, The Last Session is Book One in the Broken Pines Thriller Series-perfect for readers who love unreliable narrators, shocking secrets, morally complicated characters, and endings that leave the door cracked open.

At Broken Pines, healing is optional.

Confession is not.