Finalist 2024 National Indie Excellence awards and 2023 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers.On a bitter winter's night in Pine Creek, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec, tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed.It's the last time she will see him alive.In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching when Alec is threatened by a stranger, and later, when he meets secretly with someone familiar...

Voted Number One, Best Books of 2022 on Goodreads!Longlisted in the Mystery and Mayhem Chanticleer Book awards.In a small town in the West Australian wheatbelt, a ramshackle house and town rebel once provided refuge for gutsy orphan, Lola.Lola makes a homecoming for a funeral and discovers a town reeling with the return of an insidious attacker who terrorises young women, and a familiar boy who freshens bittersweet memories....

On a bitter winter’s night in Pine Creek, 1989, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed.It’s the last time she will see him alive.In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching when Alec is threatened by a stranger, and later, when he meets secretly with someone familiar.When Alec goes missing, the incidents take on new significance, but in the menacing shadow of her father, S...