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July 31, 2018 AD
The Tasmanian Observer called it an animal liberation raid gone wrong. Masked intruders. Gunshots. Two hospitalised—including the owner, Johnny Ryman, a quiet fixture of New Norfolk's High Street. The Southern Protection Front took the blame, and the police believed it. But the article couldn't explain the forced cabinet with nothing missing, or why no animals were taken. Some stories only make sense from the inside. This is one of them.
July 27, 2018 AD
The newspaper tells a familiar story: respected doctor, worried husband, baffled colleagues. Two Army officers visited her that afternoon. The receptionist was photocopying. Nobody saw her leave. Police are appealing for information. But the real story isn't in the article—it's in the gaps between the quotes, the questions no journalist thinks to ask, and the impossible answer that waits on the other side of a wall that shouldn't have opened.
August 2, 2018 AD
On the evening of 2 August 2018, police responded to an emergency call at a Berriedale residence. By the time it was over, one woman had been shot dead by officers, a decomposing body had been discovered in the basement, and something no one could explain had been killed in the dark.
July 25, 2018 AD
Two newspapers. Two versions of the same night. The Tasmanian Observer celebrates Sergeant Charlie Claiborne's charity triumph—$1.2 million raised, Tasmania's elite united, community spirit shining. But the Tassie Independent asks darker questions: Why was the gala host investigating a murder connected to his own event? Why did evidence go missing? What was his wife doing with the victim? Champagne and shadows. Glamour and suspicion. Same gala, different truths.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.