"The snow is crisp and even, up in the Italian Alps: how lucky the protagonists in the new Walter Presents series Stranded are to be spending Christmas at a four-star spa resort in the beautiful Vanoi Valley! The welcome is warm, the hot chocolate is decadent and the hotel building, bedecked with giant baubles, looks like a greetings card painting. But wait! Threatening music? Characters staring anxiously into space, because they clearly have a big dark secret?"
"Specifically, this is several thousand tons of snow and the side of a nearby mountain. One avalanche later and, with frozen rocks blocking the tunnel that's the only access to the valley which we know on account of someone driving through it earlier and remarking This tunnel is the only access to the valley everyone in the hotel is stuck there for the festive season, cut off from the outside world."
"Alongside the possibility of one guest murdering another to protect the Camorra crime family that his regular domestic family don't know they belong to, we have a girl in a coma, a teen love triangle, a police officer who doesn't feel she is cut out for this job but will have to step up sharpish, a bartender too kind to be true,"
A four-star spa hotel in the Vanoi Valley becomes isolated by an avalanche that blocks the only access tunnel, trapping guests over Christmas. Hidden agendas surface among guests including a witness in protection, a man tied to the Camorra, a bartender, a dubious potential owner and a hostile nearby resident. A girl ends up in a coma, a teen love triangle and a hesitant police officer must confront danger, while a mysterious death complicates the mafia storyline. Tensions rise as survival concerns collide with secrets, loyalties and possible murder, turning the festive retreat into a claustrophobic crime thriller.
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