North

Lachlan Haynes has always felt the pull to go north; to the land of heat, wetlands and humidity so intense it sends people mad. So, midway through his doctoral candidature on the medicinal properties of Australia’s most venomous sea creatures, he up-ends his life and moves to Darwin, the northern-most capital city of Australia, and takes a job at Rinydjirinydjimirri Station as the maintenance man. But the station is not what it seems, and those who live there hide unfathomable secrets. Everyone who has contact with the Lakarriny people whispers of disease and the end of days. When he finds a dead body glowing in one of the property’s mausoleums, the amazing new life Lachlan had been settling into is thrown into chaos. Arafura was not part of Lachlan’s grand life plan, even if a prophesy might suggest he should have been. If he wants to change their future, he’ll need to find a way to convince people to let go of the past. Before the rain comes.