ShelterPaperback, 12 October 2021

Meg lives alone. Her little house in the bush outside town is the perfect place to hide. This seclusion is one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, a young women escaping a abusive ex-partner. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with the looming threat of a violence at the hands of someone you love... Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. This tells Meg all she needs to know about where they've come from, and she's not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows it's unnecessary. They're safe now. Or so Meg thinks... Then she starts to wonder about some little things. A disturbed flyscreen. A tune playing on her windchimes. Has Nerine's ex tracked them down? Has Meg's husband turned up to torment her some more? By the time she finds out, it'll be too late to do anything but run for her life.