CHAPTER ONE
The forecast said thirty percent chance of flurries.
I had printed the forecast. I had printed it, highlighted the relevant section in ye...
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HR manager Sheila Voss has spent fifteen years making other people's problems disappear through proper channels. At Halverson Lodge, with a blizzard raging outside and her colleagues proposing increasingly catastrophic survival strategies, she discovers she is very, very good at making problems disappear through improper ones. Calloway & Birch Financial Group's annual retreat was supposed to be three days of trust falls and forced fun. Instead, a record-breaking blizzard strands fifty-two employees inside a remote ski lodge. Then people begin dying. Everyone assumes there's a killer trapped inside the lodge. They're right, but what no one realizes is there are two.
The forecast said thirty percent chance of flurries.
I had printed the forecast. I had printed it, highlighted the relevant section in ye...

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