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The Detained

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When Phoebe McBride returns to Bonneville for her twentieth high school reunion, she tells herself it's the best way to confront what has haunted her since her senior year. There was one boy who never lived to see graduation, and in a way she blames herself for this tragedy. Now a child psychologist, Phoebe is determined to face her demons by going back, but those demons may be fresher than she realizes.

When she arrives at the school there are only three of her old classmates present—a bad boy turned writer, a fallen football hero and a popular girl whose life isn't all she'd thought it would be. Bonneville isn't even set up for a party—it's set up for detention. Tables are aligned and her old P.E. teacher sits waiting. He always hosted detention back in her school days, but now he thinks he's here to accept an award for all his years of service.

Soon the guests discover gruesome keepsakes waiting on their chairs. Horror and paranoia sink their claws into the class of '96 as they are forced to revisit the worst memory from their youth, and ultimately pay for their past.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 12, 2018
      Four avatars of high school stereotypes reunite 20 years later to face down their own pasts and a classmate’s ghost in Triana’s pedestrian horror riff on The Breakfast Club. Four classmates return to Bonneville under the impression it is the class of 1996’s 20th reunion. Unexceptional Phoebe escaped her hometown without looking back, became a child psychologist, and came out as a lesbian. The rage-driven, battered drug dealer Tyler Garfield has cleaned himself up and found success writing horror novels. Football star Bill “Champ” Robinson hopes to recapture some of his glory, now dissolved in a disappointing life with a shrewish wife. Cheerleader Sandy Lawson similarly hopes to find new ways out of her loveless marriage rut. They arrive to the cafeteria set up as it was for detention, with curmudgeon former PE teacher Noah Dixon waiting for them. As the four graduates and Dixon realize they are trapped, they discover shocking mementos that powerfully recall their shared complicity in the suicide of classmate Graham Mullen during their senior year. Triana rushes through the emotional meltdowns, recriminations, and drastic measures without allowing enough space for real chills. Only readers who do not mind the predictable will be satisfied by this quick, shallowly creepy tale.

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