We are slowly given more information about Abby, which only leads to more questions. The phones keep going down, and one of her co-workers quits with only a brief note explaining her departure. Abby now having to face all these strange happenings at what used to be her comforting, calm place of work is further spooked. It comes complete with quirks, secrets, and dark creepy basement rooms. The Passage Inn, where Abby works and loves her job, is a character all by itself. A sense of unease runs throughout the story whether Abby is facing the dangers of the mountains or being almost sure that the locals are monitoring her every move.

Megan Miranda builds a haunting atmosphere as she tells the story of a pretty little inn with a very troubled past and sprinkles in some locals who are or could be, keeping deadly secrets. There is something a bit creepier when a story is written to be fiction has firmly planted roots in reality. More recently there were the Fraternity Four, as a group of students came to be called, who disappeared in 1997 Alice Kelly in 2012 Farrah Jordan in 2019 and Landon West in 2022.

From The National Press.Labeled as “the most dangerous town in North Carolina,” Cutter’s Pass is a pretty place in which hikers have over the years had a tendency to vanish. The fact that hikers sometimes vanish on the trails is probably true of any wilderness trail country, but Cutter's Gap seems to have a bit more of a history of this happening.the last one just this year. Cutter's Pass is located in a beautiful section of North Carolina.

The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda