Friday night. 8:00 PM sharp.

Twelve people are supposed to report to a backwoods East Texas film set known as The Shag Shed.

Not one of them makes it on time.

That turns out to be the luckiest mistake of their lives.

When disaster strikes just before call time, twelve would-be cast and crew members of Beaver Hunters Productions are left with the same impossible question:

How did every single one of them manage to be late on the exact same night?

Bad planning? Dumb luck? Divine intervention?

Silas Slade heads to the outskirts of Beaumont, Texas, to investigate The Lucky Dozen—a bizarre fictional true-crime mystery involving an ill-fated production, twelve unlikely survivors, and a chain of coincidences almost too ridiculous to believe.

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