Summer Rental

Bestselling author Rektok Ross returns with this heart-pounding psychological thriller that combines Mean Girls with Scream about a group of friends stranded on an island with a serial killer on the loose.

Riley March and her friends are headed to ritzy, remote Palm Key Island for one last blow-out party weekend before college. It’s the vacation of a lifetime: beautiful beaches, epic nightlife, and hot guys like Riley’s crush—superstar soccer player Sebastian Ramos. There’s just one catch. Everyone on this trip is hiding something. Riley is hiding her past in order to fit in. Sebastian is hiding his feelings for Riley. And someone is hiding what really happened to Jordyn Chang, a classmate that mysteriously died last summer. 

Things take a dark turn after one of their friends goes missing, and a hurricane cuts the group off from civilization. Trapped inside their rental house, a killer stalks them one by one. No one is safe. Everyone’s a suspect. As the body count rises, Riley and her friends will have to confront the secrets they’ve been keeping if they want to stay alive. . .

This riveting beach read is perfect for fans of:

--Unputdownable and fast-paced thrillers, murder mysteries, and suspense romance

--Summer books and vacation reads

--Stories that make you think like Reese Witherspoon book club books 

--Colleen Hoover meets Pretty Little Liars

--Bingeworthy TikTok books

--Natasha Preston, Lucy Foley, Holly Jackson, James Patterson, and Frieda McFadden novels 

Rektok Ross is the pen name of Liani Kotcher, a trial attorney turned award-winning and bestselling author, screenwriter, and producer. An avid reader since childhood, Liani writes exactly the kind of books she loves to escape into herself: exciting thrillers with strong female leads, swoonworthy love interests, and life-changing moments. She graduated from the University of Florida School of Journalism and obtained her juris doctorate at the University of Miami School of Law. Originally from South Florida, she currently splits her time between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas with her husband, step kids, and her dogs. She is the recipient of several awards, including the American Fiction Awards, IAN Book of the Year Awards, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards, the Chanticleer Dante Rossetti Book Awards, and Women Writing the West. Her debut young adult thriller Ski Weekend was a Barnes & Noble and Amazon National Bestseller, named a “best book of the year" by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Parade, BookRiot, Yahoo! Life, Brit + Co., BookTrib, and J-14, and is currently in development for a major motion picture. You can find her online just about anywhere at @RektokRoss, as well as on her website, www.RektokRoss.com, where she blogs about books and writing.