The Last to Drown
Five days. Twenty strangers. No way out.
The rafting trip was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. But Kaia’s starting to think she made a mistake.
Because ever since the whispers about Camas Creek began, all she feels is dread.
Seven years earlier, a guide murdered a group of rafters on this same isolated stretch of water. The killer’s body was recovered downstream—but the true-crime community has never stopped asking questions.
And for good reason.
The incidents start small—a flipped raft, missing supplies, and screams in the night—but the pattern is sickeningly familiar. And with eighty-four miles of whitewater until any sign of civilization, safety has never felt so far away.
Kaia suspects that one of the guides is lying. One of the guests knows more than she’s saying. And somewhere on this river, someone is planning to finish what started at Camas Creek.
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Grief is a theme throughout the book. How does Kaia’s grief influence the choices she makes?
Which character surprised you the most once the group was in danger? What did their behavior reveal about them?
How did fear and extreme stress affect the way the characters made decisions? Were there moments when you thought a character made the wrong choice but understood why they made it?
The river is almost a character in itself. How does the setting contribute to the suspense?
Kaia is psychologically very different by the end of the book. What do you think “survival” ultimately means to her?