Cli-fi writer and climate activist Bella Goodfellow wants to save the world, but how can she do that when she can’t even save herself?
Forced from her hideaway after a landslide swallows it whole, she finds temporary accommodation with her publisher’s elderly aunt on the Kāpiti Coast. But lilac-eyed Freyja is not what she seems, and soon Bella’s flung into a crazy scheme to expose a murderer and rescue a child. There’s just one problem – before they can act Bella must believe what Freyja is telling her … and reopen her heart to her painful past.
An Aotearoa crime thriller by a master storyteller.
Author description
Mandy Hager is a multi-award-winning writer of fiction for adults and young adults. In 2019 she was awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, for life-time achievement and a distinguished contribution to New Zealand's literature for young people. Her historical novel for adults Heloise was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.