Agatha Christie meets The House of UsherWhen code-breaker Madison Rathborne gets an all-expense paid trip to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest the week before Christmas, she expects a peaceful getaway from the fake Santas in the city and the drama of her family's turkey feast, but Deadman's Island offers no such sanctuary. Trapped in a maze of secrets, scandals and murder, with a side of ghost, Maddy struggles to make sense of it all. Macabre stories of gruesome deaths on the estate go back centuries. Her logical mind refuses to believe in legends, but there's no reasonable explanation for what's going on around her.Twelve strangers invited to the gathering, discover turkey is not the only thing on the menu, as one by one they meet their maker. Will Mad Rath's superior logician skills crack the mystery before the killer gets her? Or is there a supernatural force at work that cannot be conquered?