A Lie Worth Killing

Not every ghost story is make-believe, and this island is about to show Grace why.

A cyclone is bearing down on Freeman Bay Island, and the whole community is busy preparing for Lantern Night, the New Year festival that has lit the headland for eighty-five years. Grace Miller should be choosing her next case. Instead, she can’t sleep.

Then comes the night the room turns cold, her dog won’t stop whining, and a woman’s voice calls her name from the lighthouse. By morning, Grace has half convinced herself it was only a dream. But the storm is coming, the old keeper’s buildings have stood empty for years, and something is waiting for her beneath them.

Fifteen years ago, a lighthouse keeper’s wife walked out on her husband and left the island for good. Everyone says so. But when the storm breaks and the truth comes out of the ground, Grace and Sam discover that someone on this island has been telling the same lie for a very long time and is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep it.

The island thought she’d left years ago, but the dead tell a different story.