Ella Gilbert

An out of wedlock pregnancy forces eighteen-year-old Mary to take things into her own hands at great personal risk, altering the course of more than one life.

When a group of friends accidentally commits murder after smoking abandoned marijuana in remote New Zealand, the drug's cannibalistic side effects force them to keep smoking to devour the evidence, triggering a paranoid struggle for survival as their food supply dwindles.

When a high-school principal hears of an encroaching threat, an escaped convict who has been somehow silently breaking into teenage girls' homes in the night, he becomes overly protective of one of his closest students.

It follows Theo Richter, an Irish detective who teams with Kiwi cop Diana Huia to find a young Irish couple vanish from an infamous rural North Island New Zealand town. Amidst the search and a race against time, the pair have to contend with a community’s growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of historical murders.