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Title details for The Retreat by Elisabeth de Mariaffi - Available

The Retreat

A Novel

by Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Erin Moon
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Everyone has a secret to keep . . .

Maeve Martin arrives at the High Water Center for the Arts determined to do one thing: launch her own dance company. Time is running out for the former principal dancer and mother of two to find her feet again after the collapse of a disastrous and violent marriage. At first, there's a thrill to being on her own for the first time in years, isolated in the beauty of a snowy mountain lodge.

But when an avalanche traps the guests inside, tensions run high. Help is coming, so they just have to hold on, don't they? But as days pass, the other guests are struck down by mysterious deaths, one by one. Now, as she waits in fear, Maeve must admit how little she knows about anyone else . . . and how useless a locked door is if the darkness is already inside.

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  • Release date

    July 13, 2021

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781443463591
      • File size: 295794 KB
      • Duration: 10:16:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 31, 2021
      Maeve Martin, the heroine of this uneven thriller from de Mariaffi (The Devil You Know), was a modern dancer before having two children with her abusive husband. Now widowed, she leaves the children with her mother and books two weeks at the High Water Center for the Arts, an isolated lodge in the Rocky Mountains, where she’ll have uninterrupted time to focus on the dance company she hopes to start. Instead of finding peace, though, Maeve is thrown into a maelstrom after an avalanche cuts off the center’s power and communications. Later, filmmaker Anna Barthelmy is found dead in the snow, and Maeve doesn’t believe the death was accidental. Maeve gambles that staying behind with the center’s director rather than joining the others on the 10-mile trek to the nearest town is her best bet, but danger looms either way. The center’s lack of emergency preparation, among other elements, strain credulity, but the final chapters offer genuine suspense. Readers will feel rewarded in the end. Agent: Samantha Haywood, Transatlantic Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Maeve is an acclaimed dancer, but an abusive relationship ending in tragedy has prompted her to take her career in a new direction. Erin Moon narrates as Maeve goes to an artists' mountain retreat in winter to strategize her future. Demurely portrayed Maeve meets saucy Anna, with her Southern charm; Karo, the stern retreat director; and overbearing Dan and sexy Sim, both staff. Dysfunctional behavior among all the characters abounds, and strange events take place. Then an avalanche seals them all from the rest of the world. Moon captures the panic when guests start to vanish. But soon Moon reveals new strength in Maeve as she fights to survive a serial killer while surrounded by grizzlies, elk, and snow. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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