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August 1, 2018 AD
Charles Smith had expected a quiet pre-dawn raid on last night's lasagne. What he got was his mother in the kitchen doorway, already past cross, and a standoff he thought he was winning right up until the moment he wasn't. In the small, petty theatre of a suburban kitchen at five-forty-three in the morning, Charles discovers that being quicker than his mum is not the same thing as being her equal.
August 1, 2018 AD
Charles wanted the warmth of his bedroom and the uncomplicated company of his hamster, and that was about the extent of his ambition for the rest of the morning. What he'd underestimated was the power of a girl in the front seat of her father's car — a girl who didn't need to turn around to land the first and most accurate observation of his day.
August 1, 2018 AD
When Charles returns home from school to find the house unusually quiet, he seizes the rare opportunity to break the family rules and indulge in unsupervised computer time. However, his plans are abruptly interrupted when his brother Luke makes an unexpected appearance, revealing a startling secret that challenges everything Charles thought he knew.
August 1, 2018 AD
Charles had thought the worst thing his brother could do to him that afternoon was scare the life out of him during a League of Legends match. He was mistaken. The reunion was warm, the Anzacs were good, and the biscuit-tin conspiracy between them was functioning nicely right up until Luke led him down the hallway to the study, pulled a small device from his pocket, and lit up the wall.
August 1, 2018 AD
Charles followed his brother into the study expecting bad news and found the wall had been replaced by a slow, luminous swirl of impossible colour. On the far side of it, through a network cable and a video call, were his mother and father and Jerome — alive, dusty, and asking him to come through. By the time he understood he had already said yes, he had already said yes.
August 1, 2018 AD
Charles had assumed that another lesson on the mustard seed would pass the way every mustard-seed lesson had passed — known territory, five-star performance on autopilot, out by seven. What he had not counted on was Sister Ellingham deciding this was the morning she'd take the Church off the table, Chloe Baker's laptop picking an extremely inconvenient moment to crash, and a classmate's quiet prayer landing harder than anything he said.
Every family has one — the child who learned that laughter buys what silence won't. Charles Smith was the youngest of six, born into a household where every role was already taken. So he made them laugh. Sugar for salt, shoes vanished, stunts that turned invisibility into applause. It worked. It always works. The performance has been running so long that even he doesn't know whether there's someone underneath it or whether the act is all there is.
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Luke Smith's world transforms with the discovery of a cryptic device, thrusting him into the guardianship of destiny itself. His charismatic charm and unpredictable decisions now carry weight beyond imagination, balancing on the razor's edge between salvation and destruction. Embracing his role as a Guardian, Luke faces the paradox of power: the very force that defends also threatens to annihilate. As shadows gather and the fabric of reality strains, Luke must navigate the consequences of his actions, unaware that a looming challenge will test the very core of his resolve.
Joel Gibbons had never been anywhere. Hadn't finished school. Hadn't met his father. Hadn't done much except show up for his mum and hope that counted for something. A passport application changed everything—a name on a birth certificate, a coincidence that put him in the wrong place, and a death he didn't see coming. Joel should have stayed dead. Instead, he woke in glowing water—claimed before he even drew breath—gasping back to life with three words branded somewhere deeper than skin. You are mine.
Men are vanishing across Tasmania, and Detective Senior Constable Karl Jenkins is running out of time, patience, and sanity. Every lead points to Luke Smith—but proving it means crossing lines Karl can't uncross. He breaks into houses without warrants. He sees faces in windows that shouldn't be there. He chases the wine-soaked Gladys Cramer through high-speed pursuits only for her to slip away. His partner becomes collateral damage. His sergeant's warnings go ignored. Karl knows something monstrous is happening on this island, and he'll tear through every boundary to expose it. Even if it destroys him.
Jamie Greyson was shoved through a Portal into a dimension that shouldn't exist, by a partner he no longer trusts. In the dust and desperation of Clivilius, the son he'd only just begun to know arrives with a slit throat and no heartbeat. The lagoon brings Joel back. But when Jamie begs for a second miracle, Clivilius answers with silence. Some debts, it seems, are only paid once.
Thrown into an unfamiliar world with nothing but her medical kit and a backlog of questions, Dr. Glenda De Bruyn never asked to lead. But when strangers start arriving—wounded, lost, and dangerous—triage becomes survival. Each decision risks more than a life; it tests what remains of her logic, loyalty, and control. As the lines blur between science and myth, Glenda must confront not only the fractures in her patients—but the ones inside herself. In Clivilius, everyone bleeds. Not everyone gets patched up.
When a series of disappearances grips Tasmania’s remote edges, Detective Sarah Lahey is drawn into a case that threatens to unravel her—professionally and personally. As tensions flare with fellow detective Karl Jenkins, trust becomes a gamble neither can afford. In the search for truth, they’ll find the shadows run deeper than they imagined. Into the Dark is a haunting thriller about loyalty, obsession, and the cost of stepping beyond the light.
Gladys Cramer wasn’t looking for trouble—just a quiet glass of red and maybe a cat that actually came when called. But when a Portal opens, a body turns up, and a man with too many secrets begs her trust, Gladys is pulled into something vast, strange, and far too dangerous. She doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t want the job. Dryly funny, quietly furious, and not at all qualified—Gladys is about to learn that staying out of it doesn’t mean staying safe.
