Five years after a tragic expedition put New Hope Island back in the
headlines, past-his-prime crime author Dennis Thorpe leads a writers'
retreat to that secluded corner of the Hebrides.... The group is never
seen again.
Ruthie Gillespie, the beautiful, heavily tattooed, hard-drinking author
of dark tales for children, was supposed to be among their number, but
something stopped her at the eleventh hour, and it isn't long before the
police come knocking. With her escape tying her irrevocably to the case,
Ruthie falls deeper and deeper into a web of dark magic and darker
secrets as it becomes clear that the writers' pasts are not what they
seem.
How far can you take an investigation when your own life is threatened?
Do you continue, knowing that you must find the answers before the
island claims another victim? Or do you run and hope that it never
catches up with you?