Everyone came to Broken Pines to heal.

One of them came to kill.

Mara Ellison was once a fearless investigative journalist, the kind of woman who chased the truth even when it cost her everything. Then Hannah Vale disappeared, leaving behind a wrecked car, blood in a ravine, and one deleted voicemail Mara never told anyone about.

The world blamed Mara for ruining a woman already running for her life.

Mara blamed herself for not listening long enough.

One year later, the deleted voicemail comes back.

Hannah’s voice is shaking. She is alive. She is terrified. And she is warning Mara not to trust anyone, especially the sister who claims to be grieving her.

The message leads Mara to Broken Pines, an exclusive mountain recovery retreat where wealthy guests surrender their phones, confess their pain, and trust a famous therapist to help them begin again. It is beautiful, private, expensive, and impossible to leave once the storm cuts off the road.

But Broken Pines is not a retreat.

It is a locked room with better lighting.

When the doors lock and the recordings begin, every guest is forced to face the secret they came there to bury. A grieving sister may be lying. A mother cannot remember the child she gave away. A former prosecutor is hiding a dead woman’s case. A driver recognizes Mara from a visit she swears never happened.

Then the first recording plays.

Mara has been here before.

Under another name.

Mercy.

As confession rooms open one by one, Mara must solve a murder that may not have happened, find a missing woman who may not be dead, and uncover why her forgotten past is the key to every locked door.

Fast-paced, twisty, and darkly addictive,

*The Last Session* is Book One in the Broken Pines Thriller Series, perfect for listeners who love unreliable narrators, locked-room suspense, buried crimes, dangerous family secrets, and final reveals that leave the door cracked open.

At Broken Pines, the truth does not set you free.

It locks the door.