Emma thought her anniversary getaway with her husband, Mark, was a chance to mend their fractured marriage. The remote lakeside cabin was picturesque, the air crisp with winter frost, and the silence almost comforting. But that illusion shattered when she woke the next morning handcuffed to Mark’s lifeless body, a gunshot wound in his head. Panic surged through her, but there was no key, no phone, and no way to remove the cuffs. Mark’s carefully planned “final gift” was a cruel trap, one last act of control from a man who had discovered her affair—and wanted her to die slowly in the cold.
Dragging the weight of his corpse through the cabin, Emma discovered the true horror wasn’t just being chained to her dead husband. Outside, two masked intruders were approaching, armed and intent on finding something Mark had hidden. She didn’t know what they wanted, only that they would kill her once they got it. Every creak of the wooden floor, every breath of wind against the glass, brought them closer. The winter landscape, once beautiful, was now an open grave.
With no choice but to fight, Emma turned the cabin into a deadly maze. Using the weight of Mark’s body as both shield and weapon, she navigated the icy terrain, outmaneuvering her pursuers. She found scraps of evidence—Mark’s files, photographs, and cryptic notes—that hinted at a long-standing betrayal involving both the intruders and herself. Survival became a brutal game of deception, each move requiring her to think like the man who had orchestrated this nightmare.
The final confrontation came at the frozen edge of the lake, where the last surviving intruder cornered her. With the chain still locked to Mark’s wrist, Emma used every ounce of strength to drag his body onto the ice, baiting her attacker into a fatal slip. The ice cracked, the intruder plunged into the freezing water, and Emma watched as the surface sealed over. Exhausted, bleeding, and still cuffed to the dead weight of her past, she limped toward the rising sun. She didn’t know how far she could get, but she knew one thing for certain—Mark’s plan had failed. She was still alive.
