Keep a secret. Tell a lie. Protect the family. At all costs.A compulsively listenable suspense thriller from Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, which will keep you guessing and listening up until late into the night.Iluka has been the only home that eighteen-year-old Ana has ever known. The beautiful wild pine plantation overlooking the Pacific Ocean where her grandfather builds furniture, her aunt runs an artists' retreat, and her uncle tends the land, is paradise, a private idyll safe from the outside world.But the place holds a violent secret and when a stranger arrives, Ana will need to make a choice: to protect everything--and everyone--she holds dear or tell the truth and destroy it all.An atmospheric, suspenseful, dark and twisty thriller in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Paula Hawkins, Anna Downes, and JP Pomare.