Question 1

In Eva Jurczyk's '6:40 to Montreal', what is the official reason Agatha St. John is traveling on the train?

Accepted Answer

A one-day writing retreat gifted by her husband

Question 2

In 'The Unworthy', how does the unnamed narrator record her experiences while living in the Sacred Sisterhood?

Accepted Answer

Using discarded ink, dirt, and her own blood

Question 3

In 'Such Quiet Girls' by Noelle West Ihli, what is the immediate physical threat facing Jessa and the children?

Accepted Answer

Suffocation due to a rapidly thinning air supply

Question 4

On the ship 'Elysian Fields' in 'Cold Eternity', what repetitive task is Halley required to perform to maintain the security systems?

Accepted Answer

Pressing a button every three hours

Question 5

In S.A. Bodeen's 'The Compound', what horrifying purpose does Rex Yanakakis have for the children known as 'supplements'?

Accepted Answer

To serve as a potential emergency food source

Question 6

Thea, the protagonist of Julia Bartz's 'The Last Session', travels to a remote wellness center in which location to find her missing patient?

Accepted Answer

The deserts of New Mexico

Question 7

In Freida McFadden's 'The Crash', what combination of factors makes Tegan highly vulnerable to her captors?

Accepted Answer

She has a broken ankle and is eight months pregnant

Question 8

In the Brazilian penal colony depicted in 'On Earth as It Is Beneath', what is the Warden Melquíades' sadistic sport?

Accepted Answer

Hunting selected prisoners during the full moon

Question 9

What is the central architectural mystery in Uketsu's novel 'Strange Houses'?

Accepted Answer

A floor plan that reveals a room that shouldn't exist

Question 10

In the hierarchy of the Sacred Sisterhood in 'The Unworthy', who are the members held in the highest, most mysterious regard?

Accepted Answer

The Enlightened

Question 11

In S.A. Barnes's 'Cold Eternity', the AI hologram 'hosts' are ghoulishly modeled after which group of people?

Accepted Answer

The three adult children of the program's founder

Question 12

In 'The Compound', where do Eli and his siblings eventually find the code to unlock the bunker's exit door?

Accepted Answer

Inside Terese's oboe case

Question 13

What real-world event served as the inspiration for the plot of 'Such Quiet Girls'?

Accepted Answer

The 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping

Question 14

In '6:40 to Montreal', who is Cyanne, and why is her presence on the train so distressing to Agatha?

Accepted Answer

She is a former friend who believes Agatha's bestseller plagiarized her life

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