What unspeakable truths lurk beneath the lies?

Shelley has never been brave. But she feels compelled to find the truth about her friend’s suspicious death. Everything points to a high-level conspiracy. Why would the Prime Minister be involved? What does a mining company have to do with it?

Can ordinary people thwart a powerful conspiracy?

Shelley Ormond’s life is about to change forever. Her friend, a young refugee, dies suddenly and the federal police have shrouded her case in secrecy. Shelley has never been bold, but she will have to break the rules and jeopardise her safe, public service career to learn the truth.

Her new friend Adrian, a medical researcher, is studying a mysterious illness in the Australian outback. Young children are becoming fatally ill, but there’s no obvious cause although suspicious mining activity in the area is worth investigating. 

Shelley delves deeper and is drawn into a sinister world of police cover-ups, organised crime, government corruption, and corporate greed. If she obeys the law, the powerful can go on breaking it. The stakes are high, and the treacherous schemers will do anything to keep their deadly secrets.

Lives don’t matter, not even hers. 

This powerful, Australian political conspiracy thriller has intrigue, mystery, suspense, and tension.

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"A powerful story about powerful themes"; "Intelligent, gripping thriller"

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