
by Richard Hellewell
Every year, seven university friends escape their ordinary lives for one glorious week together. This year, Tom chooses Blackwater House, a remote mansion perched above a drowned village and surrounded by miles of wind-bent moorland. The property is cheap, beautiful, and almost impossible to refuse—until the first night, when someone finds a child's handprint on an upstairs window from the outside. As storms cut the group off from the road, old resentments surface and the house begins revealing its history: a family vanished here in 1987, leaving behind a locked nursery, a reel of undeveloped film, and a warning carved into the cellar wall. One by one, the friends are forced to confront secrets they believed had died years ago. Then the house's doors lock, the power fails, and a body is discovered in a room no one could have entered. With the moor flooding and an unseen killer moving through the walls, the friends must decide whom to trust. Survival demands more than courage—it demands the truth. But at Blackwater House, the truth may be the deadliest thing of all.