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July 24, 2018 AD
After a day spent apart processing the morning's revelation, Joel comes home with groceries they can't afford. An attempt to patch silence with food, to rebuild normality through the ritual of a shared meal. But as they sit together in their small Glenorchy lounge, both know that love and lies sit in the same room, and some cracks run too deep to fill.
Twenty-three. He was sixteen. She knew what that made her, and she answered his letters anyway. Nineteen years on, Kate Gibbons was still paying — in unpaid bills, in a back that wouldn't straighten, in a son raised on the gentlest version of a lie. She told herself she had been a good mother. She told herself the lie was a kindness. She almost made it true. Then her son asked for his birth certificate, and Kate Gibbons went looking for the one man she had spent nineteen years not looking for.
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.
April 8, 2026 AD
How much does normal cost? If you're Kate Gibbons — forty-one, single mother, Glenorchy, Tasmania — the answer is approximately twenty-three dollars. That's what her nineteen-year-old son Joel spends on a Woolworths bag of chicken schnitzel, sea salt chips, fresh broccoli, and a tub of vanilla ice cream on a Tuesday evening when neither of them can afford it and both of them need it more than they can say. Twenty-three dollars. In a household where the electricity bill is overdue and the credit card is at its limit and thirty-seven dollars is supposed to stretch across seven days of meals. Twenty-three dollars that Joel doesn't have, spent on food they don't buy, prepared in a kitchen neither of them can comfortably enter since this morning, when a government document with a name Kate had hidden for nineteen years landed between them and detonated. That's the moment. Not the revelation. Not the lie. The meal that follows.
July 24, 2018 AD
In the grey hush of a Tasmanian morning, Kate Gibbons faces the envelope that could unmake nineteen years of silence. When her son Joel walks into the kitchen, what begins as an ordinary moment turns into a reckoning — one that tests the limits of love, truth, and the stories we build to survive.
July 24, 2018 AD
After the morning’s devastating revelation, Kate and Joel spend a fragile evening circling one another in their small Hobart home. Over chicken schnitzel and vanilla ice cream, they attempt to rebuild a sense of normality — but beneath every gesture of care lies the unspoken truth that love, once cracked, can never return to what it was.
July 24, 2018 AD
July 24, 2018. 5:30 AM. Joel Gibbons finds his mother crying in their Glenorchy kitchen, clutching an unopened yellow envelope. Inside is his birth certificate, requested for a passport application. Something so ordinary it should be meaningless. But Kate has been sitting in the dark for hours, terrified to break the seal. Some envelopes don't just contain information—they contain the end of everything you've built. Nineteen years of protection, undone by government paper.
August 2, 2018 AD
As dusk falls over the quiet streets of Berriedale, Kate sits alone in her car, watching a house that holds too many ghosts. When two strangers break in — and flee moments later in terror — Kate is forced to confront the secrets she’s spent nineteen years burying, and the possibility that her missing son is trapped on the other side of that open door.
August 2, 2018 AD
Inside the house on Wallcrest Road, Kate descends into a waking nightmare. Searching for her missing son, she finds only silence, blood — and something alive in the dark that should not exist. What begins as a mother’s desperate search turns into a fight to survive what’s lurking beneath.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.