Shadows

Almost a year ago, Gaby Winters survived the car crash that killed her twin brother, Jude. In Pandanus Beach, her injuries have healed under the sun, but her grief has not eased. It stays raw and constant.

Her nights are worse. In her dreams she fights and kills demons and other creatures from hell, and she wakes with no explanation for them.

Then a man called Rafa arrives in town. He looks exactly like the figure who keeps turning up in those dreams. He also says he shares a history with Jude, though nothing Gaby knows about her brother fits what he describes.

Gaby has to accept that her picture of herself and her life is incomplete. The book is an urban fantasy with a contemporary beach setting and a mystery about identity at its centre. The question driving it is whether the answers lie in the nightmares she has been trying to shut out.