Hate's Closed Loop

When a blizzard traps seven strangers in a remote corporate retreat in the fictional town of Lockwood, New Dorset, the scene is set for a reckoning. Each carries a buried connection to a federal religious discrimination case that tore their community apart—and each hides a murder. As the body count rises inside the sealed facility, investigative journalist Caleb Vance realizes that the violence is not random. It is a meticulously engineered cycle, proving that killing never solves a wound; it only deepens the hatred and passes it silently to another hand.