She has mixed feelings and is depressed and lonely. She decides to go alone, hoping to shed her fear and return to the living. She finds an envelope with reservations her husband had made to celebrate their first anniversary at a 'dark sky park'. What a great story! Eden Wallace, who had lost her husband in a fatal car accident nine months before, is so traumatized that she lives her life fearing the dark, and always plans to be home before dark, leaving bright lights on all night. As mishaps continue to befall the group, Eden must make sense of the chaos and lies to evade a ruthless killer-and she'll have to do it before dark falls… Now everyone-including Eden-is a suspect.Įveryone is keeping secrets, but only one is a murderer. But then a scream wakes the house in the middle of the night. Horrified that her get-away has been taken over, Eden decides to head home the next day. She's ready to shed her fear and return to the living, even if it means facing her paralyzing phobia of the dark.īut when she arrives at the park, the guest suite she thought was a private retreat is teeming with a group of twenty-somethings, all stuck in the orbit of their old college friendships. So when she finds paperwork in her husband's effects indicating that he reserved a week at a dark sky park, she goes. Everyone, including her family, has grown weary of her grief. She doesn't work, has given up on her love of photography, and is so plagued by night terrors that she can't sleep without the lights on. Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page.

Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day