Published July 2026 via Amazon Original Stories
It's time for the annual girls' trip, this time to France. Lizzie's done the legwork, as usual, and if she isn't sharing all the details...well, there are reasons for that. But this is the first year she's brought a romantic partner with her. Mal is a dream boyfriend...except he isn't sharing all the details either.
This is relatively long for a short story, and it's satisfying. Too often stories with this general premise (group of friends off for a weekend) go off on a predictable route of "everyone is horrible to the point that the reader is happy when they start dying", but these friends are actually friends—maybe they take each other (or at least Lizzie) a bit for granted sometimes, but they genuinely want to spend this time together. This shouldn't be a surprise in this kind of story, and yet it was...and a pleasant surprise at that.
Another nice thing: There's a villain, but honestly a fairly run-of-the-mill one rather than an Evil Villain Who Is Evil. There's villainy, but it's an appropriate amount for this length of a story; I enjoyed that the story briefly got my pulse up without tipping over into caricature.
Honestly, my only complaint? I would have liked to read a version of this as a full-length book. And that's not much of a complaint at all.
Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.
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