Island Time

By: Nina Ritter (Contribution by), Noelle Edwards

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Paperback | 12 April 2026

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It's your classic spring break: sex, drinking, drugs, and good friends making the most of their last year of college in a tropical paradise. But when a hurricane hits two days into the trip, stranding the nineteen friends in the middle of the ocean, the vacation turns into a matter of survival.

With no way to leave and no way to call for help, the group clings to the only structure they've ever known: James, their host. Wealthy, charismatic, and dripping with social capital, he's the one thing that connects all nineteen of his guests.

His house is shelter. His rules are law. Their loyalty is survival.

Sadie has never truly belonged among them. An outsider orbiting a world of privilege and unspoken hierarchies, she begins the trip desperate to earn her place. But as fear spreads and bodies begin to fall, she sees something else beneath the panic: cracks in the system that has always protected James and elevated his favorites.

One by one, the island strips away comfort, certainty, and trust. Accidents turn suspicious. Alliances fracture. Paranoia festers. And with it, James's grip on the group tightens into something volatile and dangerous that, at first, only Sadie seems to notice.

What begins as a fight to survive becomes something darker: a reckoning. As the storm's aftermath exposes who these friends really are, Sadie realizes survival may depend not on following the leader, but on dismantling him. The hurricane has already stripped away everything else that made James and the group who they are, leaving power as the only thing keeping the system from crumbling for good.

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