E.V. Brinkley

Four friends on a weekend trip to the mountains of North Carolina anticipate a good time away from their jobs and day-to-day stress. But their celebration with good food and companionship ends with a jolt. A shocking late-night visitor and an unexplained disaster change the lives of Sonny Goss and his friends forever.

Challenged by an unforeseen dilemma, the Goss family will find that enduring hardship exudes the best and the worst from people. They also discover everyone must deal with their own survival and confront their own variations of the dark.