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Avery Shaw is on the hunt for action and adventure. The last place she thinks she's going to find it is at a motivational retreat in northern Macomb County. I mean...how strong can someone be if they're only eating tree bark, right?

When one of the guests turns up dead, however, Avery gets assigned the story. She's barely interested...until she realizes the camp is designed like a certain village from one of her favorite movies. Huts dispersed through various trees, with a huge platform and an open fireplace? Sounds like heaven...in a suburb far, far away.

Avery might not believe in manifestation, but she can't stay away from the village, and as she digs deeper into the murder, she finds an interesting set of circumstances. It seems the dead woman was sleeping with a married man. More importantly, it appears several of the women at the retreat were sleeping with the same man.

Avery isn't a joiner, but she only has one shot at figuring out who killed her victim. She's going to have to join the retreat, where she will be expected to talk about her feelings-shudder-and eat something that isn't cooked in grease and served with a side of chili.

It's the clean life for Avery...and by the end, she might just be wishing for murder over manifestation.

She also just might get her wish.