Keep a secret. Tell a lie. Protect the family. At all costs.
A compulsively listenable suspense thriller from Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, which will keep you guessing and listening up until late into the night.
Iluka has been the only home that eighteen-year-old Ana has ever known. The beautiful wild pine plantation overlooking the Pacific Ocean where her grandfather builds furniture, her aunt runs an artists’ retreat, and her uncle tends the land, is paradise, a private idyll safe from the outside world.
But the place holds a violent secret and when a stranger arrives, Ana will need to make a choice: to protect everything—and everyone—she holds dear or tell the truth and destroy it all.
An atmospheric, suspenseful, dark and twisty thriller in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Paula Hawkins, Anna Downes, and JP Pomare.
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“Crutchley’s meticulous writing and propulsive storytelling give the book a strange power.”
— North and South (New Zealand)
“An enthralling thriller, as beautiful and deadly as an ocean storm.”
— Rose Carlyle, author of The Girl in the MirrorBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Nikki Crutchley has been a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards. She has been published in Flash Frontier, Mayhem Literary Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine, and in Fresh Ink anthology. She was long-listed and regional winner at National Flash Fiction Day in 2016, and at the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day she had two stories short-listed and was regional winner.