Michelle Monroe’s fifteen minutes are almost up.
After ten years online, she is a master at her trade: scamming her fans. But her once-bright internet stardom is blinking into oblivion. The brand deals are drying up, the views are plummeting, and even her haters no longer care enough to snark.
When she spots an ornate, scarlet envelope sitting outside her high-rise condo, she realizes her luck is about to change. It’s an invite to an exclusive brand trip for the new energy drink company, Excelsior. The answer is easy: Yes. Even if she has to tolerate hours with the peers that surpassed her.
The worst she expects is a blow-out fight or two (filmed, of course, from multiple angles). But no one anticipates joining a different kind of Mile-High Club: witnessing the death of their frenemy at 30,000 feet. Still, the most tragic news of all is that there’s no internet on the island, no turndown service, and only each other and their shared grudges for entertainment.
As the backstabbing turns literal, and more influencers die in awful, strange ways, the dwindling group can no longer deny the obvious: someone gathered them there to die.
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As is common with real-world influencer drama, famous and rich people often behave badly. This book is no exception, and certain sensitive issues are briefly touched on in the book.
As Kate’s author note says in the book:
Characters in this story will die in awful, strange, creative, and sometimes graphic ways.
There are also mentions of sexual assault, addiction, panic attacks, and multiple depictions of violence.
Trigger warnings
- Physical violence
- Drowning
- Poisoning
- Panic attacks
- Mention of sexual assault
- Allusion to suicide
