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July 28, 2018 AD
Beatrix passes through the portal again and again, depositing supplies and ignoring Kain's pleas for crutches with the same maddening refrain. When Paul arrives with a mission that could change everything—walls, locks, actual safety—Kain finally glimpses hope, though it comes wrapped in questions about impossibilities and debts that can never be fully paid.
July 28, 2018 AD
A warrior woman emerges from the darkness with a warning and a way back to camp, but Kain barely registers her strange accent through the haze of blood loss. On the medical tent mattress, Glenda's words cut deeper than any wound—and as the morphine pulls him under, a familiar face finds him in the dark with a demand he can't refuse.
July 26, 2018 AD
Luke's secrets don't stay buried any longer than the body did. When the truth finally spills — about the delivery driver, the blood in the truck, the burial no one mentioned — Kain's body decides it's heard enough. But somewhere between vomiting in the dust and finding Henri curled up safe, there's a handshake waiting. A name. A question that sounds almost like hope: What can I do to help?
July 28, 2018 AD
The darkness catches up. Teeth find flesh, and Kain becomes something he's never been before—prey. Dragged through the dust with nothing but blind fury and a fist-sized rock, he discovers that survival isn't about courage. It's about refusing to stop moving.
July 26, 2018 AD
Luke returns with a bottle and a question Kain isn't ready to answer. But before old grievances can settle, the camp's resident impossibility takes another step—literally—and the doctor reaches for the whiskey herself.
Kain Jeffries was born into Tasmania's most enigmatic dynasty, but he wanted calluses, not inheritance. He chose construction sites over boardrooms, built a life with Brianne, and counted down the months until their daughter arrived. Then someone pushed him through a door that shouldn't exist. Brianne followed. Their daughter was born in a world with no hospitals, no safety, no way back. And Kain learned what a father becomes when there's nowhere left to run.
July 27, 2018 AD
Luke arrives with takeaway containers and familiar aromas, turning the campfire into something almost normal. But when Paul tries to organise the growing settlement, tempers flare faster than the flames—until a quiet voice from an unexpected corner offers to help.
July 27, 2018 AD
The dust hasn't settled on the ute before two strangers are waiting with unsettling calm and talk of masterpieces. An entomologist who corrects your vocabulary. A yard worker who sees potential in endless dust. And a speech about blank canvases that lands differently depending on how much you've already lost. While Kain escapes to the solitude of concrete and hard work, Paul stays behind to witness something unexpected — a father learning tenderness, one shaky letter at a time.
July 28, 2018 AD
On 26 July 2018, twenty-three-year-old construction apprentice Kain Jeffries left Jeffries Manor to check on his uncle at a Berriedale address and was never seen again. His phone stopped at 9:40 AM, resurfaced intermittently for days, then went permanently silent after 2 August. His vehicle was never found. His pregnant fiancée vanished from the same property where the lead detective disappeared. The case remains open. The silence remains complete.
July 27, 2018 AD
Day two arrives with harsh light, frayed tempers, and the realisation that yesterday wasn't a nightmare he could wake from. Joel whispers his first words. Jamie snaps at shadows. The river offers cold clarity but no answers. And somewhere between burnt bacon and the discovery that he owns exactly one set of clothes, Kain starts learning what survival actually looks like — not the dramatic kind, but the grinding, unglamorous kind where even breakfast requires skills no one thought to pack.
July 28, 2018 AD
The portal flares to life and Kain reaches for home—only to be knocked flat by Luke's newest recruit, a fence builder taken for his useful skills. Luke appears long enough to collect the newcomer's keys before vanishing again without a glance at Kain's bleeding leg, leaving him to play welcome wagon while Paul suggests the one cure he dreads most.
July 26, 2018 AD
The confrontation Kain's been waiting for finally erupts as Luke is forced to explain what he knows—and what he's done. The answers only raise more questions, and Kain discovers his body has limits even when his mind refuses to stop.
July 30, 2019 AD
Kain wakes to find the fence built while he slept—another contribution he failed to make. At the campfire, Luke announces plans to fly to Adelaide and bring his entire family to Clivilius, and the contrast with Kain's own isolation breaks something loose. As Clive whispers about lighting fires and sharing light, Kain finds himself agreeing to something he doesn't fully understand.
July 26, 2018 AD
The first slab is a disaster. The second might actually hold weight. And somewhere between assessing the damage and setting up forms for a third, two men discover they're building more than shelters. Paul's been here seventy-two hours and already looks like he's aged a decade. Kain's been here less than one and already knows what keeps them both working: the terror of becoming a story their families tell sometimes, about the ones who disappeared.
July 26, 2018 AD
An awkward morning-after conversation over congealed butter and lukewarm tea leads to an unexpected request—and Kain finds himself agreeing to a simple errand he expects will take no time at all.
July 26, 2018 AD
The camp's makeshift doctor examines the body and finds things that shouldn't be possible—wounds that don't match the damage, questions that don't have answers. As tension rises, Kain notices someone knows more than they're letting on.
July 28, 2018 AD
The camp delivers nothing but grief—a loyal dog wrapped in bloodstained sheets, a cousin confirmed missing, and a warrior woman offering impossible choices. When Uncle Jamie sets off into the unknown with Charity, Kain is left behind with a leg that won't carry him and a voice in his head reminding him exactly what he's become.
July 29, 2018 AD
Dawn brings the first face-to-face with Chris since the lagoon—tense, wordless, broken only by an offer of food and a pointed observation about running away. Before Kain can process the encounter, Karen conscripts him for laundry duty, and his stomach drops when she announces their destination: the water he swore he'd never touch again.
July 27, 2018 AD
The ute's arrival delivers something Kain desperately needed—a few reckless minutes of speed, noise, and pure uncomplicated joy. But Clivilius has its own rules about engines and dust, and when he finally limps back to camp, unfamiliar faces are waiting.
July 26, 2018 AD
In the quiet of a canvas tent, Kain tries to piece together what little he knows about this impossible place—until a scream tears through the camp and he finds himself alone with nothing but dust and the question of whether he'll ever see home again.
July 26, 2018 AD
Glenda introduces a nightly ritual that asks more of Kain than he's prepared to give. When wounded pride sends him stumbling into absolute darkness, the climb back teaches him something about the value of small lights.
July 28, 2018 AD
The portal swallows Beatrix before Kain can reach her, and he collapses at its base to wait for crutches that might never come. She passes through again and again — depositing supplies, ignoring his pleas, offering the same maddening refrain each time. When Paul arrives with a mission that could change everything, Kain glimpses hope wrapped in questions about impossibilities and debts that can never be fully paid.
July 26, 2018 AD
A frantic bark leads Kain to a makeshift camp by a river—and to a discovery that confirms this strange new world has teeth. While others argue over what to do, Kain's body decides it's had enough, and the current keeps moving whether anyone's watching or not.
July 26, 2018 AD
Stranded in an impossible landscape with the man who put him there, Kain's fear turns to fury—and his fists find targets he didn't intend. A familiar bark cuts through the chaos, offering one small anchor in a world that's stopped making sense.
July 29, 2018 AD
Nial reveals an impossible discovery: the portal maintains an internet connection to Earth, and suddenly the lifeline Kain's been desperate for is within reach. But the hope curdles quickly—what could he possibly tell Brianne that wouldn't sound like madness, and who will deliver their baby if Glenda never comes back?
July 27, 2018 AD
A new day in Clivilius brings harsh light and harsher tempers. Joel whispers his first words, Uncle Jamie snaps at shadows, and Kain discovers that survival here means knowing when to leave a room.
July 26, 2018 AD
A small comfort and a proper introduction give Kain something to hold onto. When Luke's brother asks what brought him here, telling the story out loud makes it real—but so does the offer that follows.
July 28, 2018 AD
They carry Kain to the lagoon despite his protests, and the first submersion proves worse than his fears could have prepared him for. Glenda's clinical assessment is two words that cut deeper than any wound, and when the others leave him alone with Chris for more "treatment," there's nowhere left to hide.
July 27, 2018 AD
Two newcomers arrive with unsettling calm and talk of masterpieces, while the group carefully skirts around questions they're not ready to answer. As plans for concrete and sheds take shape, Kain volunteers for a solo run—because sometimes solitude is the only thing that makes sense.
July 27, 2018 AD
A single pillow sparks triumph, and an unexpected offer stirs something like hope. Kain hands over his keys for a promise, but when the question of who should know where he is comes up, the right answer tastes bitter.
July 27, 2018 AD
Concrete makes sense. Dogs make sense. Even a bogged BMW makes sense — dust swallows everything here eventually. But fifty metres from the Drop Zone, the air does something it shouldn't, and Kain sees something that doesn't belong in this empty landscape. It's gone before he can be sure it was real. The shovels are easy to find. The questions aren't.
July 30, 2018 AD
Crutches wait outside Kain's caravan — a gift from Luke with a note that reads like a threat dressed as concern. The camp has moved on without him. When he finally drags himself to the Drop Zone, he arrives just in time to watch chaos unfold and realise he can't do a thing about it. The crutches let him move. They don't let him help. And when the dust settles and the others are gone, what's left is just Kain, the silence, and something stirring at the edge of his thoughts.
July 30, 2018 AD
Luke gets to collect his family. Kain gets to watch from the fire and pretend the voice offering him the same thing isn't poison. The contrast breaks something loose — Brianne unreachable, his daughter growing in a womb he'll never touch, while Luke plans a reunion that spans dimensions. As the flames dance and Clive whispers about lighting fires and sharing light, Kain finds himself agreeing to something he doesn't fully understand.
July 27, 2018 AD
His hand reaches for a phone that isn't there. Around the fire, arguments flare and fade, a dead man sings a song no one's ever heard, and somewhere between the first bite and the last toast, strangers start becoming something else.
July 26, 2018 AD
The camp's only doctor should probably avoid getting elbowed in the jaw—especially when there's no ice, no clinic, and the man who hit her wasn't even aiming. Kain came through the Portal looking for his uncle. Glenda was cataloguing supplies. Somewhere between the split knuckles and the reluctant handshake, Clivilius gained a construction expert who never applied for the job, and its doctor learned that first impressions here leave bruises.
July 26, 2018 AD
A winter morning at Jeffries Manor takes an unexpected turn when Kain's plans for a quiet day off collide spectacularly with his mother's sense of timing—and Brianne has thoughts about whose priorities come first.
July 26, 2018 AD
Four people stand over a corpse that refuses to make sense. The doctor finds healed arteries and empty veins. The nephew watches his uncle's anger turn cold and sharp. The partner keeps his calm a little too well. And somewhere beneath grey skin and a ruined throat, a chest keeps rising and falling like the dead man hasn't quite finished dying. Everyone sees something different. No one sees the whole truth.
July 26, 2018 AD
The water is impossibly blue. The landscape belongs on a postcard. And floating face-down in the crystal shallows is a young man with his throat cut ear to ear. Kain's first hour in Clivilius teaches him that panic doesn't pause for permission, that bodies are heavier than they look, and that even paradise has learned to carry its dead.
July 26, 2018 AD
A familiar face with four legs gets Kain moving again, leading him through stunning emptiness to a lagoon that looks like it belongs on a travel brochure. Uncle Jamie is there, alive but oddly distant—and there's work to be done that no one should have to do.
July 26, 2018 AD
Paul shows Kain what they've been working on, and for the first time since arriving, Kain sees something he actually understands. A botched slab, a salvageable one, and a pile of supplies—suddenly his apprenticeship makes a different kind of sense.
July 29, 2018 AD
Hours of battling the generator end when Chris appears with an offer Kain wasn't expecting: he hears the voice too, and if Kain's willing, the incident at the lagoon never happened. As they work together connecting wires—red to red, black to black—the caravan fills with light, and something between them shifts from unbearable tension toward a fragile, unspoken truce.
July 29, 2018 AD
Karen leads Kain to the lagoon for laundry—to the exact rocks where everything happened—and his paranoia spins wild trying to decode whether she knows. But when his wound reopens, she sends him to the river instead, and in that simpler water Kain finds something he'd stopped believing existed: healing without a price, and the first real breath he's taken since arriving in Clivilius.
July 27, 2018 AD
The river offers a cold reprieve, but the memory of yesterday keeps Kain cautious. Back at camp, burnt bacon and missing supplies remind him that even basic survival requires skills no one thought to pack—and fresh clothes aren't coming anytime soon.
July 28, 2018 AD
Karen's voice cuts through the aftermath with news that Joel has vanished, and suddenly there's evidence to bury and tracks to cover before anyone asks the wrong questions. But the lagoon isn't finished revealing its mysteries—Lois barks at something in the water, and whatever Karen sees there, she's not saying.
July 26, 2018 AD
Sweat and sawdust bring clarity as Kain and Paul find a rhythm in honest labour. A shared fear surfaces between them—not of this place, but of fading from the lives of everyone they love. Then a shout from camp cuts the afternoon short.
July 26, 2018 AD
Cold river water can only wash away so much. As Kain walks back through the endless emptiness, the question he's been avoiding finally surfaces—and hollow reassurances from camp do nothing to quiet it.
July 26, 2018 AD
Night falls on Clivilius without moon or stars, and the campfire becomes the only light in a void that presses close. As whiskey loosens tongues and an argument sends someone fleeing through the portal, Kain starts asking questions no one seems willing to answer.
July 29, 2018 AD
Moving into the caravan means confronting what to bring and what to leave behind—Duke's empty bed stays in the tent, a hollow monument to what this place takes from you. Then Paul delivers a generator with news that only Chris knows how to connect it, and Kain decides he'd rather wrestle incomprehensible wiring than face the man he's been avoiding.
July 30, 2018 AD
A mirage shimmers on the horizon, and Clive seizes the moment—offering Kain a paradise with Brianne and their daughter if he'll just bring them through. Kain refuses, but his relief is short-lived when Luke reveals how the settlement's supplies actually arrive.
July 26, 2018 AD
Night falls without moon or stars, and the campfire becomes the only thing standing between six people and absolute darkness. Whiskey gets passed around. A dead man takes his first steps. Luke asks for forgiveness and gets told exactly where to put it. And somewhere between a doctor reaching for the bottle and an argument that sends someone fleeing through the Portal, Kain realises no one's going to tell him whether they're safe — because no one actually knows.
July 28, 2018 AD
Beatrix vanishes through the portal before Kain can reach her, and he collapses at its base to wait for crutches that might never come. When Karen returns with fresh bandages and more bad news, the last thread of hope unravels, leaving Kain alone with an empty doorway and a patient voice that won't stop whispering.
July 28, 2018 AD
A voice that isn't his own slips into Kain's thoughts with demands he doesn't understand and consequences he can't afford. The lagoon affects him in ways Chris seems immune to, and the price for healing turns out to be something far more complicated than simply enduring the water.
July 30, 2018 AD
The heat plays tricks. A shimmer on the horizon resolves into green — grass, trees, the impossible promise of somewhere else. Kain lets himself imagine: a house, Brianne in the doorway, their daughter dancing at her feet. Then a voice slithers in with an offer. The vision could be real. All he has to do is bring them through. The refusal comes from somewhere primal. But when Luke returns with fencing supplies and explains how the settlement's resources actually arrive, Kain learns that survival here sends the bill to people who never ordered anything.
July 29, 2018 AD
The smell of chilli drags Kain from his caravan. He didn't want to face anyone—not Chris, not Karen, not the weight of his own failures. But hunger wins. And then he meets them. Grant and Sarah Ironbach. Confident. Impatient. Planning their return to a sanctuary that no longer exists for them. Kain recognises the cliff edge. He stood there three days ago. They don't know the ground is already gone.
July 28, 2018 AD
Clivilius found its bridge. Words leave Kain's mouth that aren't his own, and what follows at the lagoon's edge crosses boundaries he never imagined—his body a puppet, his will dissolved, the price of healing extracted in full. When silence finally falls, the man who lies in the sand isn't sure who he is anymore.
July 26, 2018 AD
Kain came to check on his uncle. Twenty minutes, tops—confirm Jamie was fine, grab pastries for Brianne, smooth things over at home. Simple. Except Jamie's partner answered the door looking like he'd crawled out of a nightmare. Except the dogs were silent. Except the lies didn't quite add up. And except that when Luke asked for help moving a TV cabinet, Kain said yes—because he'd never learned how to say no to family.
July 29, 2018 AD
Beatrix delivers the first caravan, and Paul assigns it to Kain — his injured leg means he won't be running from anything, so he might as well have walls between him and whatever comes next. Henri claims the bed before the door even closes. The scent of detergent fills the air, aggressive and clean, promising something that feels almost dangerous to believe in. For the first time since arriving in Clivilius, a lock clicks into place. It's not home. But it's closer than canvas ever was.
July 28, 2018 AD
Kain returns to find his leg healing and the camp ringed with defensive fires, but Clive's bargain has broken something that won't knit back together. When Chris tells Karen he simply slipped on the rocks, Kain retreats to his tent — bound now by shared silence to the man he violated, listening through thin canvas walls to laughter he no longer deserves to hear.
July 28, 2018 AD
His uncle walks into danger and Kain's body won't let him follow. The voice in his head has reasons for keeping him anchored — and when it finally introduces itself, everything Kain thought he understood about bargains, bodies, and unborn daughters shatters into pieces he may never reassemble.
July 26, 2018 AD
A winter morning off should mean warmth, privacy, and nowhere to be. Instead, Kain's intimate plans with Brianne collide catastrophically with his mother's timing—and Louise's belief that two knocks constitutes fair warning. The mortification might be survivable if it weren't for what follows: Brianne's quiet accusation that he always puts his mother first, and the worried request that proves her right. By nine o'clock, Kain is driving toward Berriedale, wondering when his life stopped belonging to him.
July 28, 2018 AD
Glenda collapses screaming the world's name while Beatrix walks toward the portal carrying Duke's body, and Kain limps after her desperate for crutches and a chance to follow his uncle. But the voice in his head has other plans—and when it finally introduces itself, everything Kain thought he understood about his bargain, his body, and his unborn daughter shatters into pieces.
July 29, 2018 AD
Five bars of signal. A connection that shouldn't exist, stretching between dimensions like a thread too thin to trust. Kain's first thought is her name. His second thought is everything he can't explain. And his third thought — the one Nial puts into words — is about due dates, doctors, and what happens when neither is guaranteed.
July 27, 2018 AD
As sunset paints the sky in impossible colours, a raspy voice rises from the firelight with a melody no one recognises—yet somehow Glenda's violin finds it anyway. For one brief moment, the group becomes something more than strangers, and Kain feels the shape of what they might be building, even as he mourns what he's lost.
July 28, 2018 AD
The shadow panther's head greets them at camp—mounted on a pole, its teeth still stained with Kain's blood, a grotesque trophy declaring victory to anything watching from the darkness. Nial's confession about his wife and toddler cuts too close to home, and when Kain reaches his limit, he limps toward the lagoon with one thought burning clear: it's time to have a conversation with the voice in his head.
July 29, 2018 AD
New arrivals Grant and Sarah Ironbach aren't confused or terrified—they're impatient, discussing timelines and assessment schedules for what they believe is a two-week wildlife sanctuary evaluation before heading home. Kain watches them plan a return trip that will never happen, recognising the same cliff edge he stood on days ago, knowing the ground has already crumbled beneath them.
July 26, 2018 AD
Alone with the portal that stole everything, Kain finally lets himself break. But when he screams for home, something cold and indifferent answers—and its response offers no comfort at all.
July 28, 2018 AD
Kain wakes to find something worse than the wound—numbness spreading where it shouldn't be, in the leg that was never touched. The only hope is the lagoon, but Kain would rather face another shadow panther than return to those waters, and he can't explain why.
July 28, 2018 AD
Kain returns to find his leg healing and the camp ringed with defensive fires, but Clive's bargain has broken something that won't knit back together. When Chris tells Karen he simply slipped on the rocks, Kain retreats to his tent—bound now by a shared lie to the man he violated, listening to laughter he no longer deserves to join.
July 27, 2018 AD
A single pillow. A set of car keys. And an offer that sounds too good to be true — because in Clivilius, it probably is. When Kain hands over his keys, he's trading the last piece of his old life for the promise of something familiar. When Paul watches the ute bunny-hop through the Portal, he's already calculating what it costs to keep secrets from a man who deserves better. Then the engine roars, and for a few reckless minutes, none of it matters. Just speed, dust, and two men remembering what it feels like to be alive.
July 26, 2018 AD
Jamie knows what the lagoon does. Knows what's coming when he tells the others to stay on shore. What he doesn't know is whether Joel will wake up — or whether Kain will ever forgive him for what he's about to experience. The water glows. The dead man breathes. And somewhere between miracle and mortification, a nephew learns exactly how much Clivilius doesn't ask permission.
July 26, 2018 AD
Kain wakes in the dust to explanations he didn't ask for and answers he definitely didn't want. The lagoon's secrets go deeper than healing—and some things, once heard, can't be unheard.
July 30, 2018 AD
Kain wakes to find crutches waiting outside his caravan—a gift from Luke, complete with a note that reads like a threat dressed as concern. He drags himself to the Drop Zone just in time to watch the newest arrival stumble out of the portal stoned and convinced he's driving home, leaving Kain alone in the dust while the whisper in his head starts to stir again.
July 26, 2018 AD
A routine welfare check at his uncle's Berriedale home turns unsettling when Kain finds the wrong person answering the door, an excuse that doesn't quite add up, and a silence where there should be noise. Sometimes a simple favour isn't simple at all.
July 29, 2018 AD
Dawn demands normality — breakfast cooked over coals, the camp's accumulated stink finally addressed, dirty clothes gathered for washing. But when Karen conscripts Kain for laundry duty and announces their destination, his stomach drops. The lagoon. The place where everything went wrong. She sees practicality: rocks for drying, water for rinsing. He sees the scene of a crime he can never confess.
July 28, 2018 AD
The portal explodes into colour and Kain reaches for home — only to be knocked flat by Luke's newest recruit. A fence builder, taken for his useful skills. On the other side of the collision, a man named Nial fights to understand why the sky is wrong, why his ute just emerged through impossible light, and why a stranger is welcoming him to a place he never asked to find.
July 28, 2018 AD
Sleep offers Kain something Clivilius has stolen from him—until the line between dream and reality blurs in ways he can't control. He wakes gasping in the dark, only to hear a growl that has nothing to do with what he's been imagining.
July 29, 2018 AD
Beatrix delivers the first caravan, and Paul assigns it to Kain—his injured leg means he won't be running from anything, so he might as well have walls between him and whatever comes next. For the first time since arriving in Clivilius, as Henri claims the bed and the scent of detergent fills the air, Kain feels something fragile and unfamiliar: the beginning of safety.
July 28, 2018 AD
Lois's warning turns the night into a siege. Shapes move at the edge of vision, chittering sounds close in from every direction, and dust blinds everyone just when they need to see most. Then something in the darkness decides it's done waiting.
July 28, 2018 AD
Kain drags himself to the lagoon to confront Clive, but when Chris appears at exactly the wrong moment, desperation and rage collide into violence. By the time the water settles and the bargain is complete, Kain flees across the dunes—not from the lagoon, but from the man he's just discovered he can become.
July 28, 2018 AD
The shadow panther's head greets them at camp — mounted on a pole, teeth still stained with blood, a grotesque trophy declaring victory to anything watching from the darkness. Three men arrive carrying different burdens: a newcomer mourning a family he may never see again, a leader trying to hold the settlement together, and a wounded survivor who's reached the limit of what he can carry.
July 27, 2018 AD
Another vehicle falls victim to the dust, and another dog bounds into camp with more enthusiasm than anyone asked for. But on a routine walk to fetch shovels, Kain sees something that shouldn't be there—a shimmer of buildings, paths, and people layered over the empty landscape like a promise or a warning.
July 28, 2018 AD
Dawn brings a diagnosis no one expected. The wound is healing — but something's wrong with the leg that was never touched. Glenda knows only one cure. Kain knows only that he'd rather face another shadow panther than return to those waters, and he can't say why.
July 26, 2018 AD
The lagoon holds secrets Kain wasn't prepared for. As light blooms beneath the surface and the impossible happens, he discovers that Clivilius has rules of its own—and his body isn't his to control anymore.
July 28, 2018 AD
The lagoon finds him even in sleep, giving him something Clivilius has stolen — until the line between dream and reality blurs in ways he can't control. He wakes to a growl that has nothing to do with what he's been imagining. What follows is darkness, teeth, and a desperate crawl toward a light that keeps flickering out.
July 26, 2018 AD
The river washes away the grit but not the questions. The walk back washes away nothing at all. And when Kain finally stands alone before the portal that swallowed his life, he does what anyone would do — he screams at it. The universe isn't supposed to answer. But this one does, and its voice is colder than the water, flatter than the dust, and completely indifferent to what he's lost.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
