Meg Skurka

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Amaryllis Azurine, a snarky seventeen-year-old self-taught cook, is uncomfortably adrift and terribly melancholy after experiencing a soul-shattering loss. "Liz" is thrust into taking a summer position as a chef for Elle, a family friend, to appease her aunt but working in that house may be the death of her. Elle arrives at her vacation home on Ravens Bluff and believes her assistant is missing. Calls to her office confirmed that the junior agent left Manhattan and should be in San Francisco. When Liz's mother and aunt come to support their longtime friend Elle, the women become entrenched in the mystery of the disappearance. Liz finds herself cooking up more than meals for her new boss, when a series of strange events turns deadly, uncovering devastating secrets. Heartbroken and desperately working from illegally obtained information, the teen and the tight-knit group of forty-somethings set off on an impromptu wilderness survival mission to rescue the junior agent. Running out of time, hunted, attacked, and pressed far beyond their limits, the four women are forced to decide exactly what they are willing to do for family.