Island Time - Nina Ritter;Noelle Edwards

His house is shelter. His rules are law. Their loyalty is survival.

Sadie has never truly belonged among them. An outsider orbiting a world of privilege and unspoken hierarchies, she begins the trip desperate to earn her place. But as fear spreads and bodies begin to fall, she sees something else beneath the panic: cracks in the system that has always protected James and elevated his favorites.

One by one, the island strips away comfort, certainty, and trust. Accidents turn suspicious. Alliances fracture. Paranoia festers. And with it, James's grip on the group tightens into something volatile and dangerous that, at first, only Sadie seems to notice.

What begins as a fight to survive becomes something darker: a reckoning. As the storm's aftermath exposes who these friends really are, Sadie realizes survival may depend not on following the leader, but on dismantling him. The hurricane has already stripped away everything else that made James and the group who they are, leaving power as the only thing keeping the system from crumbling for good.