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July 25, 2018 AD
The manifest says three deliveries. The first address stops both sisters cold—it's family. Beatrix parks down the street. Gladys goes alone to the porch, stumbling, dropping parcels, pretending to be someone she's not. What waits there will empty her stomach and test her nerve. Meanwhile, Beatrix's phone lights up with a message that might mean everything or nothing. The secrets are multiplying faster than the lies.
August 2, 2018 AD
In the snowbound strangeness of Belkeep, Gladys finds herself caught between grief and grace. As she meets Freya, faces Cody’s absence, and discovers Chloe alive, a quiet, aching bond begins to form—one that may carry her through what’s still to come.
August 2, 2018 AD
In the cavernous cold of Belkeep, Gladys finds herself face-to-face with the grief she’s carried and the future she never asked for. As a child named Krid challenges her assumptions with unsettling calm and disarming warmth, Gladys takes her first reluctant steps toward the role she never intended to accept.
July 25, 2018 AD
Back at Luke’s house, the silence is louder than ever. As Gladys returns the truck and takes stock of all that’s been lost, a quiet gesture from Cody sparks questions she can’t quite answer—and reminds her just how many answers she still doesn’t have.
July 25, 2018 AD
Gladys can't talk to Jamie. He's in another world—literally—and words have a way of failing her anyway. So she writes. Folds the letter. Refolds it. Tucks it into a box with dog beds and chew toys, and watches it disappear into colours she doesn't understand. The Portal swallows everything she offers. But when Luke returns with a plan that requires her hands on boxes from a crime scene, she realises: some things, once sent, can never be taken back.
July 29, 2018 AD
A routine wine run turns unexpectedly high-stakes when Gladys is pulled over and questioned by police. As lies pile up and a detective’s interest sharpens, the road ahead becomes less about traffic laws—and more about what, exactly, she’s driving them all toward.
July 25, 2018 AD
Four people gather in candlelight to mourn a boy they never knew. Beatrix arrives wound tight from the gala, still in her cursed black dress. Gladys brings scented candles and questions. Luke wakes to uninvited company. Cody arrives early with whiskey and warnings. In the flicker of flames, they toast Joel—Jamie's son, nineteen, dead under tragic circumstances. But beneath the grief, secrets simmer. And Cody's final words linger: "Death is but a mere process."
July 27, 2018 AD
An unexpected dinner becomes the stage for revelations, confessions, and the slow, tentative rethreading of trust. As Cody opens up about his past and what it truly means to be a Guardian, Gladys must decide whether to let him in—or let go.
August 1, 2018 AD
Trapped in a storage cupboard with Cody's corpse through the long dark hours, Gladys emerges into morning light only to confront the full horror of what she's touched, what she's lost, and what she can never undo. As crimson-stained fingers meet bathroom mirrors and warm water runs red, she scrubs desperately at evidence that clings like guilt—knowing soap can only reach the surface.
July 25, 2018 AD
As the situation spirals out of control, Gladys is forced to confront the full, gruesome weight of what she’s become part of. With tempers flaring, secrets colliding, and an unexpected arrival that changes everything, hysteria may be the most rational response she has left.
August 2, 2018 AD
Four women converge on Luke Smith's house from different angles. Kate watches two strangers break in while searching for her missing son. Jenny and Sharon flee in terror, unaware they're being observed. Sarah photographs them from her surveillance position. Gladys arrives drunk with a bottle of wine. None of them see the full picture. Then a gunshot changes everything.
July 31, 2018 AD
Gladys braces for silence and solitude, but what arrives at the door drags her into a harrowing confrontation she never could have prepared for. As alliances collapse and horror takes its final shape, she’s left with only the dark—and what it steals from her.
July 25, 2018 AD
As missed turns, shattered mirrors, and nausea collide, Gladys finds herself driving deeper into something far worse than chaos: complicity.
August 2, 2018 AD
A failed plan, a bottle of wine, and a gunshot force Gladys to improvise in the middle of the street. With nowhere left to turn, she gambles everything on an unlikely ally—and opens a door she can never close.
July 24, 2018 AD
After a harrowing drive and rising suspicions, Gladys finally confronts Luke—only to stumble upon something that defies logic, science, and everything she thought she knew about the world. As truths unravel and people vanish, one thing becomes disturbingly clear: nothing in this house is what it seems.
July 30, 2018 AD
Rescue missions have protocols. Pick up your drunk, muddy sister. Don't let her throw evidence out the window. Retrieve said evidence before reporters notice. Explain that home doesn't exist anymore—police found the car, traced the plates, and now every familiar street has become hostile territory. Some rescues end with relief. Others end with towels spread across seats and the realisation that nowhere is safe anymore.
July 25, 2018 AD
Back inside the house, Gladys finds no comfort—only more questions. As wine flows and explanations unravel, two missing dogs become the latest casualties in a world sliding further from anything she can recognise.
August 2, 2018 AD
After an unexpected visitor and a haunting gift, Gladys reaches her breaking point. With a Portal open, a bottle half-empty, and nothing left to tether her, she steps across the threshold into the unknown—where even the welcome feels artificial.
August 1, 2018 AD
Gladys, freshly released and barely stitched together, finds herself in the passenger seat of her father’s car—heading not home, but into the ruins of what used to be safety. As she confronts the wreckage of her house, her past, and her secrets, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: someone has been looking, and they know exactly where to dig.
August 1, 2018 AD
Gladys finds herself face-to-face with a seasoned interrogator, but as pressure mounts, a glinting object and a sudden shift in control unravel everything she thought she knew. When the walls close in, survival may hinge on a single decision—and a man whose motives remain terrifyingly unclear.
July 30, 2018 AD
Gladys Cramer waits at the Owen property for a routine firewood delivery, armed with only a bottle of Shiraz and mounting frustration. When a huntsman spider invades her sanctuary, terror meets comedy. Then Jim Hedger arrives—rough-edged, dependable, unexpectedly charming. What begins as a transaction becomes something else entirely: awkward attraction, a stolen kiss, and a moment of connection shattered by unfortunate timing and a visitor who changes everything.
July 30, 2018 AD
Gladys flees into the storm-soaked Tasmanian wilderness, her only companions: a sprained wrist, a bottle of Shiraz, and a creeping certainty that she’s crossed a line she can’t return from. As police close in and the forest thickens, every step becomes a gamble between survival and surrender.
August 1, 2018 AD
Alone, hunted, and unravelling at the edges, Gladys finds herself crouched in a carpark bush, phone in hand and no one left to call—except the one person she swore she wouldn’t drag into this. In the breathless hush before rescue, a single call carries all the weight of her past, her fear… and her hope.
July 30, 2018 AD
Caked in mud, half-drunk, and unravelling by the roadside, Gladys finds that even kindness can be dangerous. As strangers intervene and Beatrix returns, she’s forced to reckon with the consequences of every panicked choice—and the life she may never get back.
July 30, 2018 AD
After barely escaping a police sweep, Gladys returns home in search of calm—but finds none. As alliances fracture and the Portal beckons once again, she must finally choose between the life she's known, the people she loves, and the version of herself she may no longer be able to hold onto.
August 1, 2018 AD
Gladys, hollow from loss and fatigue, finds herself under the quiet scrutiny of her mother—and the weight of concern she’s no longer able to outrun. As old patterns clash with unspoken fear, one missing sister and a purring cat become the only anchors Gladys has left.
August 1, 2018 AD
Some interrogations happen in interview rooms with recording equipment and lawyers present. Others happen in stopped patrol cars on suburban roadsides, where desperate detectives confess to crimes whilst their prisoners decide whether that confession makes them allies or ammunition. Twenty minutes of driving time becomes a negotiation neither woman can afford to lose—because the only thing more dangerous than what they know is whether they'll tell anyone else.
July 24, 2018 AD
Gladys arrives with a truck full of supplies and a head full of questions. The bedroom is empty. The wardrobe stripped bare. Jamie and Paul have vanished, and Luke's excuses are crumbling faster than he can invent them. When fury meets impossibility in a Berriedale study, the truth doesn't wait for permission—it tears through walls in swirling colour and demands to be seen. Some revelations cannot be unsaid.
July 24, 2018 AD
Armed with Paul's credit card and a shopping list that makes no sense, Gladys hires a truck under someone else's name and begins collecting materials for a project she doesn't understand. Each transaction is a small lie, each receipt another step deeper into complicity. By the time the hardware employee laughs at her "chicken coop" story, she knows the truth: she's not helping a friend. She's enabling something she can't even name.
July 30, 2018 AD
An ill-timed bottle of Shiraz, a suspicious visitor, and a catastrophic reveal throw Gladys and Luke into damage-control mode. But as the Portal flares and the plan unravels, it becomes clear that some secrets don’t want to stay buried—and some men shouldn’t be shown the truth.
August 1, 2018 AD
Handcuffed in the back of Sarah's patrol car, Gladys navigates a fragile interrogation where every word could be a trap or a lifeline. When Sarah pulls to the roadside and admits she found Cody's body but didn't kill him, Gladys must decide whether this unexpected confession makes Sarah an ally worth trusting—or a dangerous liability she can't afford to keep.
July 25, 2018 AD
Gladys and Beatrix climb into Joel's delivery truck, blood still drying on their clothes, and pull away from Luke's house with a manifest and a cover-up to complete. But leaving proves harder than staying. A wrong turn. A shattered mirror. Vomit in the roadside dirt. As the sisters bicker over routes and blame, one truth becomes inescapable: they've crossed a line, and there's no reversing course now. Only forward. Always forward.
July 25, 2018 AD
Joel Gibbons lies dead in a delivery truck outside Luke's Berriedale home. Gladys and Beatrix Cramer are covered in blood, clutching a manifest and unravelling explanations. Then a man appears in the driveway—someone who knows Luke's name without introduction, who examines the body with unsettling calm, who says he's been "waiting." Four people stand around Joel's corpse. Someone knows what happened. Someone knows too much. Someone isn't telling the truth.
Every family has the one who holds it together — the sister who returns what the other stole, who cleans up, who files the feeling under later and gets on with it. Gladys Cramer held it together through three dead men, a career destroyed by a blood test, and the night she stood in a forest clutching the neck of a broken wine bottle over a woman who would never get up again. Now, somewhere cold and far from anything she recognises, the wine never lasts the night.
July 30, 2018 AD
A high-speed pursuit through the hills of Collinsvale sends Gladys careening between adrenaline, dread, and absurdity. With a spider on the windscreen, a ute full of chaos, and the police closing in, her choices narrow—and her grip on the plan starts to slip.
July 25, 2018 AD
With the worst seemingly behind them, Gladys and Beatrix press on—two packages left, no energy, and even less certainty. But as errands pile up and the absurdity of their mission deepens, Gladys starts to suspect the worst part might not be what they’ve done… but what they’ve become.
November 1, 2022 AD
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.
July 24, 2018 AD
Gladys’s quiet morning unravels into a bureaucratic nightmare as she hires a truck under someone else’s name and begins collecting materials for a project she doesn’t understand. With every awkward exchange and mounting receipt, she’s forced to confront the blurry lines between helping a friend and becoming complicit in something far stranger.
July 29, 2018 AD
With detectives inside the house and Luke in hiding, Gladys must improvise a performance worthy of survival. But as the questions close in and potential enemies surface, it’s not just the truth she’s trying to hide—it’s her heart rate.
July 24, 2018 AD
Gladys returns home after witnessing something beyond comprehension—but the quiet of her house offers no comfort. As the weight of everything she’s seen crashes down, her body gives out before her thoughts can catch up… and in the stillness that follows, the real unravelling begins.
August 2, 2018 AD
With nowhere left to hide, Gladys makes an impossible offer—and Sarah accepts it. In the stillness of a stranger’s home, grief and necessity twist into conspiracy, and two women begin planning something neither of them can undo.
July 26, 2018 AD
Still reeling from the night before, Gladys searches for her missing cat—but it’s what she finds in her own kitchen that rattles her most. As memory, paranoia, and something darker bleed into the morning, she begins to realise the danger might be much closer than she thought.
July 31, 2018 AD
Trapped under surveillance, Gladys turns to a strange new task: ordering plants for a place she’s never seen. But as credit cards, Portal Keys, and quiet farewells stack up around her, the illusion of control crumbles—and one decision changes everything.
July 26, 2018 AD
When Cody’s secrets finally come to light, Gladys is forced to confront more than just betrayal—she must reckon with loss, anger, and the uneasy truth of what lies on the other side of the Portal. But even with everything broken, something about Cody still lingers… and that might be the most dangerous part.
July 25, 2018 AD
Two packages left. Two more doorsteps. Two more chances to get caught. But as Gladys drops parcels and questions whether any of this matters, a darker truth settles in: maybe the police won't believe Joel made these deliveries at all. Maybe they're just creating more evidence of their own guilt. Then Luke calls with new requests, and the cover-up expands into something neither sister fully understands.
July 25, 2018 AD
Morning brings no comfort—just cats, accusations, and a letter Gladys shouldn't write but can't stop herself from finishing. Beatrix wakes to burnt toast that isn't burnt and questions that don't have answers. As the sisters drive through strained silence towards Luke's house, wine bottles roll at their feet, names that shouldn't connect start aligning, and a text message arrives with three words that change everything: "Everyone knows Luke Smith."
July 25, 2018 AD
Morning brings no clarity for Gladys—only guilt, friction, and the weight of a letter she can’t stop herself from writing. As she wrangles cats, confronts her sister, and prepares to face the unknown, she clings to the only truth she has left: something is broken, and it’s no longer just her.
July 30, 2018 AD
A routine delivery spirals into a showdown with an eight-legged invader, a flirtation that veers into farce, and an encounter with a man who may not be what he seems. As Gladys battles panic, innuendo, and the uneasy chill of something off-script, she’s left wondering: is this still just bad timing—or has the real game already begun?
July 26, 2018 AD
Some mornings start with coffee. This one starts with questions. Where's Chloe? Where's Cody? Why can't Gladys remember letting the cats out? Luke needs a number she doesn't have—except she does, hidden on a wine bottle she forgot about. Then the smell hits. Blood. Decay. Gone in seconds. But it leaves proof: a dried fingerprint on steel. Something happened in this house. And Gladys slept through it.
July 23, 2018 AD
When a solitary evening spirals into minor domestic chaos, Gladys must reckon with grief of an unexpected kind—spurred by a shattered wine glass, a wayward cat, and the bittersweet solace of cheesecake memories. As the red spills and the cats stare, quiet rituals give way to a deeper stillness she didn’t know she needed.
July 24, 2018 AD
She thinks she's confiding in her lover. He knows he's executing a mission. When Gladys returns from Luke's house with suspicions and a bizarre shopping list, Cody is waiting on her verandah with wine and calculated comfort. Two perspectives on the same conversation reveal how easily affection becomes manipulation when one person knows far more than the other—and how the kindest advice can serve the cruelest purposes.
July 24, 2018 AD
A simple errand spirals into quiet unease when Gladys visits an old friend’s home—only to find a closed door, an odd shopping list, and a credit card that shouldn’t be there. As she steps back into the cold, her instincts whisper that something is wrong… but is she ready to know what?
July 25, 2018 AD
The first body was Brody. Gladys found him four years ago—same stillness, same horrible silence, same blood pooling where it shouldn't. She thought that was a wound she'd survived. She was wrong. Wounds like that don't heal. They just wait. And when she rounds the back of the delivery truck in Luke's driveway, Brody's face slams into her memory like a fist. Her knees give out before her mind does. The wine bottle follows.
July 24, 2018 AD
When politeness becomes complicity, and kindness makes you an accomplice. Gladys returns a cake container and leaves with someone else's credit card, a bizarre shopping list, and the growing certainty that her best friend isn't really sick in bed. Luke smiles, explains, deflects—each word a careful brick in a wall he's building between truth and discovery. In the space between what's said and what's suspected, trust fractures one polite lie at a time.
July 24, 2018 AD
When Gladys summons Beatrix with cryptic urgency, wine and accusations collide in a Victorian kitchen. A water bottle becomes evidence. A name—Clivilius—that shouldn't be known becomes a bridge between impossible truths. Jamie's message reveals murder, betrayal, and secrets both sisters have been keeping. By evening's end, they'll burn the evidence together and make a pact: silence, not as surrender, but as the only way to survive what's coming.
July 28, 2018 AD
An unannounced visit unearths a buried warning, and a routine glass of wine becomes the prelude to the unravelling of everything. As identities shift and allegiances fracture, Gladys is forced to confront a decision no one can make for her—and no wine can make easier.
LockedJuly 29, 2018 AD
July 29, 2018. Detectives Karl Jenkins and Sarah Lahey pull over a silver Honda Civic for reckless driving. The driver passes the breath test, but when the vehicle registration comes back, it belongs to someone who shouldn't be lending out their car. The driver has explanations—and keys to prove them. This is the official traffic incident report that documents two roadside encounters and a decision that changes the direction of an investigation.
July 25, 2018 AD
A truck in the driveway. A door left ajar. As Gladys and Beatrix step into an unsettling quiet, what they find waiting will test the limits of their composure—and their loyalty.
July 24, 2018 AD
A haunting dream shatters into a waking nightmare when Gladys is confronted by an unexpected visitor in the dead of night. But as the fear fades and recognition sets in, the line between dream, truth, and madness becomes disturbingly thin.
July 25, 2018 AD
As Gladys watches the Portal open once more, the day takes a darker turn: a truck swap, a box of dog toys, and a crime scene masked by casual logistics. With wine in one hand and dread in the other, she’s drawn into the quiet choreography of complicity—and starts to wonder how far is too far.
LockedJuly 29, 2018 AD
A wine run to the bottle shop shouldn't be complicated. But when you're driving a missing person's car and get pulled over by police, simple errands become high-stakes interrogations. Gladys Cramer passes the breath test—the wine bottles are still sealed—but the detectives want to know whose car she's driving and where she's going. She has explanations. She offers to prove them. She tries calling ahead. Then texting. Then gets pulled over again. Experience the traffic stops from Gladys's perspective—the mounting panic, the deleted messages, the two bottles of wine riding shotgun through it all, and the growing dread about what will be waiting when they arrive at Luke and Jamie's house.
August 1, 2018 AD
Sarah's knock at the door pulls Gladys from her fragile trance, and the officer who discovered Cody's body and shoved it back into the cupboard—unknowingly trapping Gladys inside with the corpse—now arrives with handcuffs and scripted charges that make no mention of murder. As cold steel bites into Gladys's wrists and absurd accusations are read aloud, she realises Sarah isn't here to help—and Cody's voice in her head might be the only truth she has left.
July 25, 2018 AD
Luke opens the Portal one more time, but it’s not what passes through that lingers—it’s what’s left unsaid. As wine flows and wonder collides with dread, Gladys sends a message across dimensions and hopes someone is still there to read it.
July 24, 2018 AD
As Beatrix finally arrives, Gladys lays bare the truth she can no longer contain. A bottle, a message, and a long-buried secret ignite a night of wine, accusation, and revelation—until the sisters make a pact: silence, not as surrender, but as the only way to survive what’s coming.
LockedJuly 29, 2018 AD
Detective Sarah Lahey investigates a missing person. Gladys Cramer hides one. When their paths collide at a pristine Berriedale house, both women must navigate an afternoon spiralling toward chaos. Between flickering lights and broken windows, wine becomes both weapon and offering. Karl Jenkins loses control. Blood spills. Lies multiply. Through four chapters spanning two perspectives, discover what happens when desperation meets deception—and two women realise survival might mean becoming allies.
July 29, 2018 AD
After rerouting her morning for yet another favour, Gladys finds herself face-to-face with a Luke she barely recognises—guarded, generous, and quietly breaking. With a broken Portal Key and too much cash in hand, she begins to suspect that some things, and some people, are spiralling out of reach.
August 2, 2018 AD
Strangers walking through bedroom walls establish rules quickly: answer vague questions, accept returned Portal Keys without explanation, leave before grief gets complicated. Leigh delivers what Claiborne stole, mentions Cody's intentions, then vanishes when informed Cody's dead. Snowflake disappears too—likely through the Portal during the chaos. Wine says you've nothing left to lose. The Portal Key agrees. Some crossings happen from courage. Others from having nowhere else left to go.
July 25, 2018 AD
The first stop on the delivery list sends Gladys straight into the jaws of family tension—and straight to the edge of her physical limits. As memories, bodily fluids, and unresolved grudges collide on a porch in New Norfolk, she learns that some messes were never meant to be cleaned up.
July 25, 2018 AD
Seventeen hundred dollars changes hands in driveways whilst secrets hide in bedroom wardrobes. Gladys returns truck keys and concrete diagrams, discusses memorial services for bodies that don't exist, discovers phone numbers on wine bottles. Luke shoves backpacks deep into corners, counts diminishing cash reserves, watches money bleed away faster than answers arrive. Some exchanges involve payment for shelving. Others involve the slow realisation that everything costs more than anticipated.
July 30, 2018 AD
There's a particular kind of conversation that happens when police are circling your house and your sister has a Portal Key in her pocket. One where "just a few more days" means "I'm not ready to abandon everything" and "we're running out of time" means "those days don't exist." Where wine gets poured, showers get announced, and Portals get opened whilst nobody's watching. Where choosing not to decide is still choosing.
August 1, 2018 AD
When you've spent the night in a cupboard with a corpse, soap and water feel like pitiful gestures. But Gladys scrubs anyway, watching red swirl down the drain, until Sarah's knock interrupts the ritual. The charges are legitimate. The crimes are real. They're just not the ones that matter. And that might be exactly the point.
July 25, 2018 AD
In the flicker of candlelight and the burn of shared whiskey, Gladys and the others gather for a memorial they never planned—for someone they never got the chance to know. But as grief brings them closer, Cody’s final words hint at something far more unsettling than sorrow.
July 29, 2018 AD
Gladys navigates the fallout of a chaotic search, a bleeding detective, and a dangerously revealing slip of the tongue. As wine becomes both weapon and offering, a fragile alliance is formed—one built on misdirection, mutual suspicion, and the desperate hope that truth can stay one step behind the questions.
July 24, 2018 AD
Back from an unsettling visit with Luke, Gladys isn't even through the door before Cody reappears—unannounced and with his own bottle of wine. As old rhythms collide with new suspicions, Gladys finds herself caught between comfort and intuition… and a growing sense that someone, somewhere, isn’t telling the truth.
LockedAugust 2, 2018 AD
A gunshot. A bottle of wine. Two desperate women. Gladys needs to retrieve her dead partner's body. Sarah needs evidence to vanish. What begins with wine-soaked panic becomes calculated conspiracy—portals opening on command, impossible bargains struck. Some deals are signed in ink. This one was sealed in shiraz.
July 23, 2018 AD
A wine glass falls. Red spreads across the floorboards. Snowflake laps at the puddle whilst Chloe watches from the furniture. It's just spilled wine—except Gladys is weeping like her world has ended, and perhaps, in this quiet moment of domestic chaos, something has. When you live alone with your rituals and your cats, sometimes the smallest accidents reveal the largest cracks. This is an evening of shattered glass and deeper fractures, where cleaning up the mess becomes an act of survival.
July 30, 2018 AD
Fleeing police through a storm-soaked Tasmanian forest teaches you three things: sprained wrists hurt, shiraz bottles survive falls better than dignity, and getting splashed by passing utes whilst waiting for rescue defines rock bottom. Meanwhile, Beatrix discovers the most audacious use for Portal Keys yet—because when your sister needs extraction, why limit yourself to objects when you can drive entire vehicles between worlds?
July 30, 2018 AD
The shiraz was supposed to be for later. But watching Luke's careful plans collapse in real time has a way of moving timelines forward. When Gladys slides behind the wheel to chase down what just went wrong, she discovers something unexpected — she's good at this. Really good. The question is whether that matters when everything else is about to get so much worse.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
