The Revenants

An ordinary school hike. A tragic rockslide. Forty hours of absolute terror. When rescuers finally break through the rock in "Devil's Gorge," Blackwood, Colorado, the entire nation holds its breath. They expect to recover bodies. Instead, a miracle awaits them: the twenty-seven high school juniors and their teacher, Ms. Desjardins, are alive. Unharmed. Only the local guide is missing. His body is found farther down the gorge, his face frozen in a terror that the medical examiners struggle to attribute to a simple fall. For the media and the families, it's a triumph, an incredible story of resilience. But for FBI Special Agent Miller, dispatched to the scene, the story doesn't add up. The teenagers' accounts are too consistent. Their calm is too perfect. Where there should be tears, hysteria, and trauma, Miller finds only cold, passive stares and a strange group cohesion. Miller is convinced: the guide's death was no accident, and these students are no longer the victims they claim to be. Did they commit the unthinkable to survive? Or did they bring something back with them from the darkness? No matter the truth, it will come to light—at the risk of opening Pandora's box.