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When Morgan marries into the wealthy and respected Vincent family, she believes she has married into a life of privilege, security, and tradition. She could never have imagined what was hiding beneath the polished surface. At first, the strange disappearances are easy to explain away. A tragic accident here. An illness there. The Weatherly-Vincents are a powerful family, and everyone knows that their children seem to die far more often than they should. But Morgan soon discovers the truth: every year, the family holds a hunt. Every child age ten to eighteen is given a head start. Then the family hunts them. The rules are simple. There are no rules. To the Weatherly-Vincents, it is not murder. It is tradition. A test of strength. They believe that only the strong deserve to live, and the weak deserve to die. The family has spent generations perfecting the lie. When a child doesn't survive the hunt, their death is carefully staged-a car accident, a sudden illness, a tragic fall. To the outside world, the Weatherly-Vincent family is simply cursed with an unusual number of childhood deaths. But Morgan knows better now. And worse-she knows that marrying into the family made her part of it. Every year, she is expected to participate. Every year, she must pretend she doesn't hear the screams, doesn't see the blood, and doesn't know what is really happening when another Weatherly-Vincent child disappears. Then her eight-year-old son, Justin, becomes old enough to be hunted. Morgan has spent years trying to protect her son from the family's darkest secret. Now, she has only one choice: break the rules and risk becoming a target herself, or play along and watch her own child become prey.