Secrets on the Pier by K. Z. Black
When a guest vanishes in the Funhouse, Summer Caldwell must unravel a 10-year-old incident before the pier chooses her as the finale.
Some places don’t close. They just wait for you to come back.
Seabreeze Pier reopens in a blaze of lights and screaming rides, and Summer Caldwell, Head of Guest Safety, knows how to keep chaos contained. Until a “minor” ride fault feels wrong. Not broken. Tampered. Management wants smiles for the cameras. Summer wants the truth.
Then a radio call cuts through the noise: someone’s locked inside the Funhouse.
Mirrors warp reality. Exits shift. Alarms glitch. A guest vanishes in a crowd thick enough to hide anything, especially a killer who treats murder like public entertainment. When Detective Delgado arrives, he sees a crime scene. The pier sees a PR disaster. Evidence disappears. Security feeds corruption at the worst moments. And Summer’s phone lights up with a message meant only for her:
YOU’RE STILL HERE.
As bodies drop and the park keeps operating, Summer starts to unravel, because the pier has tunnels, keys, and staff-only corridors… and a buried incident from ten years ago that someone wants resurrected.
Is Summer losing her grip?, or is someone making sure she can’t trust her own eyes?
And when the killer’s endgame finally surfaces, there’s only one question left:
If the pier chose Summer as the finale… Can she survive the last ride?
“If you’re looking for a mystery that keeps your heart racing, Secrets on the Pier is it. K. Z. Black takes the nostalgia of a seaside pier and turns it into a brilliant, high-tension puzzle. The idea of being trapped in a funhouse where the exits keep shifting is my literal nightmare—but Summer Caldwell’s determination to find the truth amidst the neon lights and corruption will keep you turning pages late into the night.”
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