The Retreat

Author/Guide: Sherri Smith

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: You would hope a retreat would be, well, restful….

ISBN: 978-1785654060
Genre: Suspense

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What you need to know before your trail

Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post-Hollywood self-destruction.

Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait “Where Are They Now?” articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother’s too-good-to-be-true fiancée invites her to a wellness retreat upstate. Together with Katie’s two best friends – one struggling with crippling debt and family obligations, one running away from a failed job and relationship – Katie will try to find the inner peace promised at the tranquil retreat. But finding oneself just might drudge up more memories than Katie is prepared to deal with.

Each woman has come to the retreat for different reasons. Each has her secrets to hide. And at the end of this weekend, only one will be left standing.

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Travel Guide

Take time out on a Retreat in the Catskills

Let’s hope it doesn’t end in murder like the one in this book however! The retreat sounds good from the start – a remote location, plenty of time to rest and relax, start afresh. Four friends go here to regenerate. Well a woman and her brother’s fiance go to try and fix their relationship and one of them invites two friends.

The retreat sounds like a dream:

“…until the road that led to the Sanctuary lolled out of the thick, dark trees like a tongue. Once they’d turned onto the driveway, it took a full minute tor each the lodge.”

“It was a massive chalet-style lodge with a stone facade and dark blue trim, perched on 160 acres of wooded lakefront land. It blended so perfectly with its surroundings that it almost seemed to be outfitted with camouflage.”