The Reunion

"They say high school is a rite of passage. For Eleanor Graves, it was a sentence. Twenty years later, the silence is finally breaking." The class of 2006 is returning to the small town of Oakridge for their twenty-year reunion. They are older, more successful, and desperate to keep the past buried. But the shadows of the old quarry are long, and someone hasn't forgotten the girl they all chose to ignore. Eleanor Graves was the girl in the back of the classroom, the one whose silence was a shield. After a tragic night at the river two decades ago, she vanished from their lives, leaving behind a legacy of guilt and unanswered questions. Now, as the old clique gathers, a series of cryptic messages and a "shrine" in a basement suggest that Eleanor's shadow hasn't moved—it has grown. As the reunion turns from a celebration into a high-stakes reckoning, the survivors must confront a terrifying truth: Eleanor's legacy isn't one of revenge, but of transformation. In a world that often fails its most vulnerable, can one act of "seeing" a person ripple forward through time to save the next generation? The Reunion is a haunting, redemptive psychological thriller for fans of The It Girl, Big Little Lies, and the atmospheric, character-driven suspense of Liane Moriarty. It is a story about the weight of memory, the cost of silence, and the enduring power of kindness in a world that prefers to look away. We remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.