It’s Cindy’s birthday and her friends are throwing a party for the beautiful, popular flirt at a cabin on Fear Island: we have Gretchen, our narrator, the new girl in town. Gretchen’s old friend Hannah, Cindy’s closest frenemy. Hannah’s boyfriend Gil, who also happens to be Cindy’s ex-boyfriend. Gretchen’s new boyfriend Marco, an intense dude that she’s ready to dump. Patrick, the easygoing jokester, and Jackson, who won’t stop staring at Gretchen and making her nervous. Patrick’s dad’s a cop, and he warns Patrick that a murderer has escaped and is hiding in the Fear Street Woods. So of course everyone thinks it’s a really good idea to go ahead with this party anyway…until Cindy’s discovered murdered in the kitchen! Is it the Fear Island killer…or one of Cindy’s so-called friends??