THE RESONANCE TRAP

Thirty-two billion dollars are missing. The auditors are dead. And the nightmare is just beginning. Vanguard Firm's senior executive retreat was supposed to be a celebration of record profits. But when a catastrophic blizzard traps the top management team inside an isolated, high-tech mountain lodge, the power grid fails, the temperature plummets, and the executives begin to violently turn on one another. Kira Sterling, a brilliant and notoriously detached quantitative analyst, survives the initial massacre by retreating into the dark, freezing corridors of the lodge. But as she navigates the flooded sub-basements and shattered luxury suites, Kira realizes this isn't a tragic case of cabin fever. The lodge is a weapon. Someone has hijacked the building's infrastructure, broadcasting a localized 4.2 Hertz acoustic frequency designed to bypass the rational brain and induce violent, paranoid fugue states. It is the perfect, untraceable method to execute a team of financial experts and bury a thirty-two billion dollar embezzlement scheme. Hunted by her psychotic colleagues and a faceless, desperate Mastermind, Kira must rely on cold, mathematical logic to dismantle the acoustic weapon and secure the physical proof of the theft. But in a closed system designed to shatter the human mind, surviving the night might cost Kira her sanity.