Until the Last Light Goes Out

by Courtney Gould

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Pub Date 13 Oct 2026 | Archive Date 27 Oct 2026

Description

Flickering neon lights and hot Miami nights turn deadly in this haunting gothic horror.

You may not escape, but the truth will.

Twenty-five years ago, the Ripley Memorial High School senior class entered the luxurious Kaleidoscope Key resort deep in the remote Florida Keys. By morning, almost all were dead. Despite international intrigue and years of investigation, no one truly knows how the 183 students died. And they never will, since the five survivors of the massacre have never spoken a word about what happened to them that night.

Paige Keller, daughter of one of the Kaleidoscope Key Massacre’s infamous survivors, has grown up determined to steer her life away from the resort and the unsolved mysteries her ex-best friend, KJ, can’t leave alone. But when she’s called home on the 25th anniversary of the massacre, she finds that KJ has gone missing.

Paige knows there’s only one place KJ could be: her obsession, the now-abandoned resort. When Paige and the remaining survivors’ kids go in after her, they’re forced to confront their—and their parents—pasts once and for all.

Kaleidoscope Key is waiting, and it's starving. Once they find their way inside, there may not be a way out. And one way or another, the truth of the massacre will come to light.

Captivating and chilling, Courtney Gould’s Until the Last Light Goes Out is a tale you won’t soon forget: a horror story, a love story, and an ode to the pain passed between generations.

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ISBN	9781250423474
PRICE	$21.00 (USD)
PAGES	352

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Priscilla C, Reviewer

I absolutely DEVOURED this book on just one day. All the thrills, chills, twists, turns, and deviousness I’d want out of a horror novel. It reads like a good movie, with each new development leaving you wanting to know more, but also feeling like it can’t possibly get better…Until it does.

The characters? Memorable. Setting/scenery? Phenomenal. Story plot/ending? Exquisite. I felt like my mind was being bent, reshaped, and bent again as I progressed into the book. Not a single dull moment in this read, ladies and gents. Please, PLEASE do not shelf this for later. Read ASAP and hope for more from this author in the near future.

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Reviewer 1471745

what an absolute banger of a book!!

i loved everything about this. one of those books that are just so good that i was covering the bottom of the page so my eyes didn’t jump ahead.

the vibes are immaculate and i’m obsessed with the retro aesthetic of the resort. i loved the characters and how the two ‘timelines’ intersected to showcase the breaking of generational trauma.

the horror was extremely well done and left me feeling so unsettled throughout the book. it’s bloody and brutal and is amazing at creating tension and the feeling that something isn’t right here.

the central mystery is so compelling (200 people just causally dying in one night??) and finding out information and piecing it together was so much fun. it had so many twists that genuinely gagged me.

i cannot recommend this enough, especially to fans of liminal horror (like backrooms etc).

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review!