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July 28, 2018 AD
A Mont Blanc pen, a stack of statement forms, and ten years of suspicion finally reduced to ink on an official record. Louise writes with the precision drilled into her at St. Mary's—each sentence an admission, each date a failure she's documenting for strangers to judge. By the time she signs her name at the bottom, she's no longer certain it belongs to the same woman who walked in.
July 26, 2018 AD
The morning begins like any other—Thomas already halfway out the door, his mind three steps ahead of his body. Louise intercepts him in the kitchen, suggests he take Kain to Kingston. The conversation goes nowhere. It always goes nowhere now. But beneath the familiar disappointment, something else is building. Jamie hasn't answered her messages in two days. The grey tick on her phone has become its own kind of message.
July 26, 2018 AD
A simple task—wake Kain, ask about Jamie—goes catastrophically wrong when Louise discovers her son is already very much awake. After the mortification subsides, she convinces Kain to check on her silent brother, trading one awkward conversation for the promise of answers she desperately needs.
July 28, 2018 AD
Louise waits alone in Interview Room Three, counting seconds like accusations. She came here for Kain and Jamie—her missing son, her missing brother. But when the door opens, it isn't Karl. Charlie slips back in with an urgency that doesn't match protocol, carrying something that has nothing to do with the investigation she came to start. She's spent thirty years building compartments in her mind. She's about to need another one.
July 26, 2018 AD
Louise's attempts to reconnect with her increasingly distant husband end in familiar disappointment as Thomas retreats behind security concerns and board meetings. Meanwhile, her brother Jamie's uncharacteristic silence triggers an unease she cannot name but refuses to ignore.
LockedJuly 28, 2018 AD
Two women sit in a sterile meeting room with different agendas. Sarah Lahey sees an opportunity to probe Louise Jeffries about her history with Karl. Louise sees ten years of suspicion finally reduced to ink—each sentence an admission, each date a failure documented for strangers to judge. When Sarah's questions push too far, Louise's rebuke is swift. By the time she signs her name, neither woman is quite who she was when she walked in.
July 27, 2018 AD
Alone in the conservatory, Louise drifts through rooms layered with decades of memory—and confronts the growing distance in her marriage, the manor's unsettling awareness, and a family history riddled with unexplained disappearances. As the clock counts down to Kain's call, her certainty hardens into something she can no longer dismiss as mere anxiety.
Luke's visit to Jeffries Manor where he gets Kain's clothes and speaks with Thelma.
July 26, 2018 AD
Alone in the kitchen with her silent phone, Louise finds herself pulled into memories of the brother she helped raise but couldn't protect—from the day he was born to the distances that separated them through every loss. As her worry compounds, so too does a long-held unease she's never been able to name.
July 28, 2018 AD
Louise sits in the calculated discomfort of Interview Room Three, facing a sergeant who remembers her from the last time a Jeffries vanished and a young detective who's already cataloguing her every tremor. She hasn't come to be managed or placated. She's come to say aloud what ten years of politeness never permitted—and to demand the one investigator she believes might actually listen.
Louise Jeffries never apologised for her choices. She had two children before she had a wedding ring, finished her degree with a baby on each hip, and built a career that earned respect on her own terms. When she married into Tasmania's most enigmatic dynasty, she brought pragmatism to a house drowning in secrets and warmth to a family haunted by disappearance. For twenty-eight years, she held everything together—husband, children, legacy, and the growing certainty that some things, no matter how fiercely you love them, cannot be saved.
July 28, 2018 AD
In a meeting room at Hobart Police Station, Louise Jeffries committed ten years of suspicion about Luke Smith to the official record. What began as a formal written statement became something closer to a reckoning — with the dates that had never quite aligned, the instincts she had spent a decade overruling, and the decision that had sent her son into whatever was waiting at Berriedale.
July 26, 2018 AD
Between seven and nine, three of Louise's children pass through the kitchen at Jeffries Manor. Rebecca arrives like a storm, searching for a missing file and leaving chaos in her wake. Kain's morning takes a mortifying turn when Louise forgets to wait for an answer before opening his door. Katie drifts in last, ink-stained and thoughtful, offering quiet reassurances that land like predictions. Each encounter reveals something. None of them ease the worry taking root.
July 28, 2018 AD
Louise waits alone in Interview Room Three, counting seconds like accusations—until Charlie returns with an urgency that doesn't match protocol. What he offers her isn't comfort or answers about her missing family. It's something she'll have to carry in a compartment all its own, locked away from the investigation she came here to start.
July 28, 2018 AD
The door opens and ten years collapse into a single breath. Karl Jenkins is older now, and so is Louise—but he's still the man who pays attention to things other people miss. She didn't come here to be comforted. She came because she needs someone who will look at the gaps in Luke's story and see what she's seen for a decade.
July 26, 2018 AD
The children have scattered into their days. The manor settles into its particular brand of watchful quiet. Louise drifts through rooms layered with decades of memory, waiting for Kain's call, feeling the house lean in around her like something listening. The Jeffries family history is riddled with disappearances—people who walked through doors and simply ceased to exist. She's spent twenty-eight years telling herself she doesn't believe in curses. Today, that belief is fraying.
July 28, 2018 AD
The plastic chairs in Interview Room Three are designed for discomfort. Louise recognises the strategy—she's sat in enough boardrooms to know when furniture is a weapon. Across the table, Charlie Claiborne looks older than she remembers, carrying the accumulated weight of a case he never solved. Louise feels the history between them surface like something drowned finally rising. She hasn't come to be managed. She's come to name names.
July 28, 2018 AD
With Thomas safely on a flight to Melbourne, Louise finally does what she should have done days ago—walks into the Hobart Police Station and invokes the one thing guaranteed to make them listen: the Jeffries name. But the attention that name commands comes with its own terrible history, and the sterile walls of Interview Room Three hold memories she'd rather forget.
July 26, 2018 AD
A quiet morning conversation with Katie offers Louise a brief window into her youngest daughter's interior world—her writing, her bond with Thelma, her choice to stay when others left. But Katie's gentle reassurances can't quiet the fear now taking root, and Louise recognises the feeling for what it is: the beginning of something she can't yet name.
July 26, 2018 AD
Rebecca's frantic search for a missing file brings a whirlwind of chaos into Louise's morning—and a glimpse of the fierce, lonely daughter she both admires and quietly worries for. But even as Louise fixes wayward curls and swallows unspoken concerns, her thoughts keep circling back to the brother who still hasn't called.
LockedJuly 28, 2018 AD
Interview Room Three holds three people, but only two understand why this moment matters. Louise Jeffries came specifically for Karl Jenkins—the man who notices what others miss—hoping he'll finally see what she's suspected for a decade. Karl enters and feels years of careful self-construction begin to fracture. Sarah watches their recognition unfold, excluded from a history no one thought to mention. A missing persons case becomes something far more personal.
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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.
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.
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.
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.