A group of high school students embark on a seemingly ordinary camping trip in the breathtaking Trinity Alps. But what starts as an adventure quickly turns into a harrowing tale of survival and the razor’s-edge difference between perfect cruelty and perfect love.

“Takes a hard look at the dark intensity boiling beneath the surface of an everyday teenage boy.”—Mindy McGinnis, Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species

“Explores the collision between desire and action in unpredictable physical and psychological landscapes.”—Publishers Weekly

Ben Gibson is many things, but he’s not sorry and he’s not a liar. He will tell you exactly how what started as a simple school camping trip in the mountains ended the way it did. About who lived and who died. About who killed and who had the best of intentions. And he’ll tell you about Rose. But he’s going to tell you in his own time. Because after what happened on that mountain, time is the one thing he has plenty of.