Death in Driftless Hollow

A winter retreat in Wisconsin was meant to be quiet, restorative, and safe. Snow cuts them off. By the time they realize a killer is among them, it’s already too late.

After months of panic attacks and relentless therapy, Mara Keene books a remote winter retreat in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region—three quiet nights meant to prove she can survive her own mind. 

But on a short group excursion she reluctantly joins, everything goes wrong.

A tractor flips on a narrow trail. A blizzard seals the road behind them. And six strangers find themselves stranded in the woods.

They plan to stay together only long enough to reach help. They don’t make it far.

Someone is injured.

Someone is lying.

And someone out there wants them dead.

As Mara’s panic threatens to spiral, her therapy becomes the only thing keeping her rooted in reality—because the traps buried beneath the snow are real, the footsteps circling them in the dark are real, and the killer stalking the hollow has been waiting for a night just like this.

And as the group fractures, Mara begins to realize that surviving the night may require choices no one came here prepared to make.

She came here to reclaim her life.

Now she must fight to keep it—

before the Driftless takes what’s left.