Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Lucy is young, restless, and ready to disappear-if only for an afternoon. A cruise stop on a tropical island offers freedom from parents, expectations, and the life waiting back home. Sun, music, strangers, and the promise of anonymity pull her toward Coconut Cove, a beach club where time softens and rules fade.
Then she notices the missing posters.
By nightfall, Lucy is gone.
What begins as a hazy mistake spirals into a calculated nightmare. Drugged, abducted, and transported deep into the island's interior, Lucy awakens to a world that operates by its own rules-one where people are hunted for sport, survival is currency, and those who live long enough are absorbed into something far worse.
Inside a pristine estate that masks brutality with elegance, Lucy must learn quickly: how to obey, how to observe, how to endure. Every choice is watched. Every mistake is remembered. And the most dangerous thing of all may be how easily she begins to adapt.
Lucy is a tense, atmospheric thriller that explores control, complicity, and the thin line between survival and disappearance. Unsettling, immersive, and psychologically sharp, it will appeal to readers who enjoy dark suspense, moral unease, and stories where the true horror isn't just what's done to the body-but what happens to the mind.
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