Safari Murder Party
In this darkly funny, slightly unhinged, heart-pounding thriller, two office rivals must team up to escape wild animals and even wilder coworkers on a corporate retreat gone wrong.
Fletcher Spence is dying for a promotion. And her colleagues are more than happy to oblige.
After three years working seventy-hour weeks as assistant to the most terrifying CEO in the magazine world, Fletcher finally finagled a spot on Cartwright Media’s annual corporate retreat—a famously luxurious week on the Cartwrights’ private island, where promotions are handed out like party favors. And her plan to snag her dream job as a travel magazine photographer was going great…until her boss’s dramatic death reveals his last will and testament: Whoever survives the week will inherit the company.
So now she’s stuck on her billionaire boss’s safari park island, surrounded by wild animals and on the run from coworkers who’ve swapped coffee cups for machetes and briefcases for hunting rifles.
To Fletcher’s dismay, her only ally might be her boss’s insufferably gorgeous son, Waylon Cartwright. Despite their hostile history, Fletcher is at least 80 percent sure he won’t try to kill her this week. Plus, his experience on the island might come in handy while they fend off lions and tigers and…marketing executives? Oh my.
While Fletcher battles her own ambitions and her unexpected attraction to Waylon, her power-hungry, bloodthirsty colleagues will do anything to stop them from escaping with their lives. Everyone knows the media industry is cutthroat, but in this safari party, it’s never been more true.
“Corporate ambition meets carnage in this wickedly funny, wildly original thriller. I loved it!” —Joanna Wallace, author of You’d Look Better as a Ghost
“Rachel Moore’s adult debut is sharp, hilarious, and wholly addicting. A dark comedy with twisty turns on a luxury safari where not everyone makes it out alive. Safari Murder Party more than earns its spot on your next vacation. Just stay safe out there.” —Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores, nationally bestselling authors of Happy Wife
“A perfect mashup of survival thriller, romance, and corporate satire, Safari Murder Party is delightfully original—it had me gasping, laughing out loud, and suddenly eager to plan a vacation just so I could keep reading” —Olivia Worley, author of So Happy Together
“Safari Murder Party is Succession meets Jumanji wrapped in a romantic comedy package. On an island full of animals, the book shows that the real animals are the CEO suite that are willing to do anything for money and power. I laughed even as the bodies started to pile up.” —Tasha Coryell, author of Matchmaking for Psychopaths
Praise for Safari Murder Party
Us in Ruins
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Margot is on the quest to uncover and reassemble an ancient—and cursed—vase, with the help of a boy who went missing in 1932, because it's the only way to put back together her broken heart in this stand-alone adventure rom-com, perfect for fans of What the River Knows and The Lost City.
The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn’t been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that.
Drawn by the vase’s supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school’s archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, it’s her first time holding a shovel, but she’s got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane’s journal.
Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase’s missing shards, Margot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago. She’s shocked when her search leads her to a statue that looks exactly like Van, and then the statue comes to life.
Catapulted into the present, Van is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. He’s all sharp edges, intent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. But it takes two to survive Venus’s death-defying challenges, and, together, Margot and Van must excavate the treasure—and their buried pasts—before their story ends in ruins.
With a blend of humor, magic, and love, Rachel Moore crafts another stand-alone adventure rom-com full of double- and triple-crosses, hilarious shenanigans, and frustration-fueled banter, where the best treasure is true love.
"With immersive, elegant prose and thoughtfully crafted characters, Us in Ruins is not only an endlessly fun, action-packed romp through booby-trapped ancient ruins, but a tender portrayal of a young girl's burning desire to be seen and loved for who she is. The romance between soft, deep-feeling Margot and guarded, ambitious Van is enough to make even the stoniest heart flutter. I devoured this riveting, romantic adventure with all the joy and wonder of watching The Mummy (1999) for the very first time." - Ellen O'Clover, author of Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
“Step aside, Tomb Raider! Moore has struck gold with her sophomore novel, Us in Ruins. Ruins is an absolute treasure, blending spellbinding romance and high-stakes adventure into a heartfelt (and occasionally heart-pounding) journey. Readers will have no trouble rooting for Margot Rhodes, a main character who is both refreshingly real and achingly tender. This is a must read for those who thought Indiana Jones could use a little more kissing and a lot more magic.” - Skyla Arndt, author of Together We Rot
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The Library of Shadows
Funny, moving, and heart-achingly real, this romantic romp and paranormal romcom debut—through a haunted library with trapdoors, ghosts, and memories—is full of great love that triumphs over even death, perfect for fans of Ninth House and Cemetery Boys.
Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn’t uncommon and no one dares stay in the library after dark. And Este Logano enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father.
Not literally, of course. She doesn’t believe in ghosts. Going to her dad’s school just seems like her best hope at figuring out who he was.
But then Este meets Mateo, who is maybe—probably—definitely—a real ghost. And an annoying one at that.
When Mateo frames Este for the theft of a rare book from the library’s secret spire and then vanishes, Este will have to track him down or risk being expelled and leaving Radcliffe early just like her father did.
Except following her father’s footsteps might be more dangerous than Este ever anticipated. As she investigates the library with its secret passageways, hidden tunnels, and haunted halls, she learns that the student disappearances aren’t just myth. And if she isn’t careful, she’ll be next.