The Support Group

What happens when the sanctuary is the trap?

Alma Trask is a grief counselor seeking a fresh start at the Briarfield Community Center. Her job is simple: hold the container for seven widows navigating the devastating loss of their husbands.

But Alma is trained to notice things. When she reviews their intake forms, she spots an impossible statistical anomaly. Five of the women lost their husbands to unwitnessed cardiac arrests. All five men carried identical $500,000 life insurance policies. And the agent who sold them those policies? He was the husband of the group's most empathetic member, Nola Ferris-and he's dead, too.

As Alma digs into the bureaucratic machinery of death certificates and property filings, she uncovers a terrifying architecture. The bereavement group isn't a sanctuary; it's a meticulously designed cover for a serial murder operation targeting abusive or controlling husbands. The women aren't just grieving widows-they are accomplices who have been recruited through a wellness retreat and given a lethal, untraceable exit strategy.

But the architect of this conspiracy knows Alma is watching. Nola has built the perfect trap, leveraging Alma's own tarnished professional past to ensure her silence. With a new target already in the crosshairs, Alma must dismantle the machine from the inside before she becomes its next casualty.