Some mothers bite back.
Sally McLoughlin is trapped in a sea cave on Tasmania's wild northwest coast, water rising, exit blocked, a dead man floating beside her – and he isn't the first body today.
That afternoon, a stranger came through her door in Wynyard. She did what she had to for her daughter’s sake. Her boyfriend Val didn't ask questions. Her brother Kevin brought a shovel instead of calling the police. It should have ended there – quiet, buried, forgotten.
It didn't.
Now four people are sealed in the dark with the thing they were trying to hide, and something else that was already living there – something small, glistening, guarding a nest of her own, and utterly unwilling to share her home.
The cave doesn't care what Sally did to survive the first ordeal. It only cares whether she survives this one.
Because in here, everyone is protecting something. And not everyone gets to keep it.
Genre: Mystery
Sally McLoughlin is trapped in a sea cave on Tasmania's wild northwest coast, water rising, exit blocked, a dead man floating beside her – and he isn't the first body today.
That afternoon, a stranger came through her door in Wynyard. She did what she had to for her daughter’s sake. Her boyfriend Val didn't ask questions. Her brother Kevin brought a shovel instead of calling the police. It should have ended there – quiet, buried, forgotten.
It didn't.
Now four people are sealed in the dark with the thing they were trying to hide, and something else that was already living there – something small, glistening, guarding a nest of her own, and utterly unwilling to share her home.
The cave doesn't care what Sally did to survive the first ordeal. It only cares whether she survives this one.
Because in here, everyone is protecting something. And not everyone gets to keep it.
Genre: Mystery
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