NEVER COMING HOME

Ten young influencers go on an all-expenses-paid tropical vacation. Will any of them return alive?

Unknown Island, an invitation-only luxury resort where everything is free and the philanthropic owner wishes to remain anonymous, is trending on social media. The carefully curated inaugural group, which includes some racial diversity, is made up of a feminist CEO, a famous video gamer, a football player–turned–dance influencer, a transgender model, a Princeton undergraduate elected to local office, a restaurateur with a YouTube following, a TikTok-famous beauty, a rich party girl, an environmentalist, and a drug-dealing DJ. None of them are over the age of 20. Ambitions run high as they approach the island, each hoping to grow their following and monetize the resulting fame with this single activation. Hope quickly turns to fear and anger, though, as they find themselves stranded at a less-than-luxurious motel with no staff, little to eat except junk food, and no Wi-Fi to contact the outside world. They soon discover that it wasn’t their influencer status that got them invited but their deepest, darkest secrets. In a modern retelling of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, with nods to the infamous Fyre Festival, the unexpected twists and nonstop tension will keep readers grasping for explanations. Mildly graphic scenes add to the horror, while the finale is as surprising as it is frightening in its plausibility.

Social media has never been this scary.