Kirsty McKay – författare

Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, and recently accepted to a prestigious college, she has everything to look forward to-but the night of her going-away party at the Moon Mountain ski resort, she disappears.Gaia's younger sister Esme is supposed to be flying back to England with her family after the party, but she can't leave with Gaia missing-especially because nobody remembers Gaia leaving the party. Or if they do, they're not saying. Everyone at the lodge has their own secrets: the little rich girl, the ex-boyfriend, the ski instructor, the failed reality star.Esme's out of her depth searching the dark, dangerous forests and icy slopes of Moon Mountain, until she teams up with a local boy who promises to help her. The clock is ticking, and it's down to Esme to piece the clues together and work out who-if anybody-is telling the truth.

From the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister? comes another gripping young adult thriller. Seven teens are stranded during a trip in the mountains – cut off from civilisation and hunted by an unknown killer who wants them dead…Maggie Atkins will never forget what happened in that cave ten years ago when she and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped by their bus driver and kept captive. She will never forget that her friends left her alone to escape, or the image of her kidnapper falling to his death, but she has done her best to put the ordeal behind her and move on.Her past catches up with her when she's forced to go on a school trip to the mountains with the very same people who abandoned her, and only a stone's throw away from the scene of her kidnapping. She's determined to suck it up and get through it, though, since it's only one night of her life. But then a brutal storm changes everything and separates her group from their chaperone. With no phones and a limited food supply, the group strategises how they can survive the elements and make it back to safety.Then they realise there is someone else on the mountain. Someone who knows what really happened all those years ago. Someone who wants them dead and is willing to take them out one by one. Maggie thought she'd already survived the worst thing she would ever go through – she was wrong.Kirsty McKay’s proven talent for crafting intense narratives shines once again in this tense survival thriller for YA readers, resulting in an unputdownable read for thriller enthusiasts.TropesYoung Adult ThrillerSuspenseMystery Survival ThrillerStranded Group

Ser la nueva en la escuela puede ser aterrador y el primer viaje escolar puede ser la muerte. Sin embargo, Bobby cree que puede divertirse en grande durante una excursión en la escuela. Quizá así pronto deje de ser la nueva, y sus compañeros ya no se burlen más de su acento. Pero nada resulta como lo espera. El clima es terrible, cae la peor tormenta de nieve de la historia de Escocia, y el autobús en que viajan parece quedar atrapado para siempre en la Era del hielo. ¿Podría ser peor? Bobby pronto se da cuenta que cuando sus compañeros empiezan a morir, reviven con un apetito insaciable.

Tras sobrevivir a una terrorífica excursión escolar, Bobby descubre que la pesadilla aún no ha terminado. Para empezar, su amigo Smitty no aparece. Bobby sabe que tiene que encontrarlo, incluso si eso significa arriesgarlo todo y recorrer una región infestada de zombis ansiosos por devorar carne humana. Pero las cosas siempre pueden ponerse peor, porque los zombis no son los únicos que la están persiguiendo.