Emorelle Leach

To Prey in Winter Emorelle Leach

It is one of the coldest winters on record. Seven people are recruited for The School, a rumored place where former intelligence experts and operatives lend their skills to unnamed clients for a price. The pay is half a million for three weeks. However, it quickly becomes clear to the students the nature of their assignment is not what they were told and leaving before the job is done is impossible. When the candidates decide to escape, they realize they must survive a dangerous web of deceit that goes far beyond the school gates. Meanwhile, they also begin to suspect not everyone in their party is who he or she claims to be. Nothing is black and white and more than one person is playing an ice-cold game of cat-and-mouse in this hauntingly tense and slow-burning thriller.