Everyone came to Broken Pines to heal.

One of them came to kill.

Mara Ellison was once a fearless investigative journalist. Then Hannah Vale disappeared, leaving behind a wrecked car, blood in a ravine, and one deleted voicemail Mara never told anyone about. The world blamed Mara for destroying a woman who was already running for her life. Mara blamed herself for not listening long enough.

One year later, the deleted voicemail returns.

Hannah’s voice is shaking. She is alive. She is warning Mara not to trust anyone, especially the sister who claims to be grieving her.

The message leads Mara to Broken Pines, an exclusive mountain recovery retreat where wealthy guests surrender their phones, confess their pain, and trust a famous therapist to help them begin again.

But Broken Pines is not a retreat.

It is a trap.

When a storm cuts off the road, the doors lock, and the recordings begin, every guest is forced to face the secret they came there to bury. A grieving sister may be lying. A prosecutor is hiding a dead woman’s case. A mother cannot remember the child she gave away. A driver knows Mara from a visit she swears never happened.

And then the first recording plays.

Mara has been here before.

Under another name.

Mercy.

As confession rooms open one by one, Mara must solve a murder that may not have happened, find a missing woman who may not be dead, and uncover why her own forgotten past is the key to every locked door.

Fast-paced, twisty, and darkly addictive, The Last Session is Book One in the Broken Pines Thriller Series, perfect for listeners who love unreliable narrators, locked-room suspense, shocking secrets, and jaw-dropping final reveals.

At Broken Pines, the truth does not set you free.

It locks the door.