Murder at Blackwood Creek

At Blackwood Creek Ranch, the Apex Solutions leadership retreat was supposed to be a weekend of "team-building." Instead, it becomes a corporate bloodbath.When CEO Marcus Thorne stages an elaborate prank to test his executives' loyalty, the plan goes violently off-script. His scream over the radio - "I see someone... what are you doing here?" - is followed by a sickening thud that no one can explain . What should have been a staged fall becomes a real corpse at the bottom of Widow's Peak.HR Director Sarah Jenkins knows the death doesn't add up. The body is still warm. The wound is too clean. And the "dummy" meant for the prank has been shredded to pieces, as if someone practiced on it first .As the storm traps everyone on the ranch, the power flickers, the digital logs shift, and the executives begin turning on each other. A CFO with a motive. A COO with blood on his boots. A tech manager who uncovers GPS data that shouldn't exist. And an assistant - Maya Cho - whose brother was destroyed by Marcus years earlier, and who now moves through the ranch like a ghost with a ledger to balance.When Sarah discovers the truth behind Project Icarus, the missing algorithm, and the suicide Marcus buried, she realizes she's not investigating a murder - she's surviving one. And the killer isn't done cleaning up the org chart.Fast, sharp, and viciously corporate, Murder at Blackwood Creek delivers a full thriller experience in under an hour - where every KPI is survival, and every promotion is deadly.

Pages: 34, Paperback, Independently published