Ten years ago, Quincy Carpenter walked into Pine Cottage with her college friends and was the only one to walk out alive. The press branded her a "Final Girl," lumping her together with two other women who had survived their own infamous massacres: Lisa Milner and Samantha Boyd. Quincy remembers almost nothing of that night, and she prefers it that way.
Now she runs a successful baking blog, lives quietly in Manhattan with her steady boyfriend, and keeps herself together with a careful mix of routine, wine, and Xanax. Then Lisa is found dead, and Sam turns up on Quincy's doorstep, prickly and intense, insisting that Quincy finally confront what happened at Pine Cottage.
As Sam pushes her way into Quincy's life, the walls Quincy built around her memory begin to crack, and the version of events she has clung to for a decade starts to look dangerously incomplete. Final Girls is a sharp, propulsive thriller about trauma, survival, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going. What really happened that night, and who Quincy can trust now, are questions that turn far darker than she expects.