Entre la blanca nieve, se esconden secretos oscuros.
Cinco adolescentes. Un misterio por resolver. ¿Dónde está la reina del baile?
Tras la muerte de su padre, Bea Valencia y su madre han ido dando tumbos. Su última parada: Winterbrook, un idílico pueblo a los pies de las Montañas Rocosas… donde nada es lo que parece. Hace unos meses, después de la muerte del magnate Wolfe, el Resort de esquí que mantenía al pueblo sufrió un gran incendio la misma noche que desaparecía la reina del baile, Brittany Clark.
Bea, fan del true crime, propone investigar la desaparición de Brittany en el Club de Podcast del instituto. No lo hará sola. Ella y otros cuatro compañeros, a pesar de sus diferencias, se unirán para descubrir la verdad.
After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea’s dime.
Usually the responsible one, Bea isn’t about to admit exactly why she’s suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure hidden somewhere in the western US?
Bea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks. But Christy believes she’s onto something—and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it. Out in the desert that one woman believes to be a promised land, the other a wasteland, Bea and Christy find themselves embroiled in a more high-stakes, transformative escapade than either could have imagined.
Vic Wood has her priorities: scrape by on her restaurant wages, take care of her younger brother Henry, and forget their mother ever existed. But Vic’s careful life crumbles when she discovers that their long-missing mother belonged to the Acheron Order—a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the dead at bay. What’s worse, Henry inherited their mother’s magical abilities while Vic did not, and he has been chosen as the Order’s newest recruit.
Determined to keep him safe, Vic accompanies Henry to the isolated woods in upstate New York that host the sprawling and eerie Avalon Castle. When she joins the academy despite lacking powers of her own, she risks not only the Order’s wrath, but also her brother’s. And then there is the imposing, ruthless, and frustrating Xan, the head Sentinel in charge of protecting Avalon. He makes no secret of wanting Vic to leave.