Shelley has never been brave. But shes compelled to find the truth about her friend’s suspicious death. Everything points to a high-level conspiracy. How is the Prime Minister involved? And what does a mining company have to do with it?

Reviews say:
"A powerful story about powerful themes"; "Intelligent, gripping thriller"

It has a mystery, intrigue, drama, and suspense. It’s a story of fighting the odds to do what’s right.

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 mystery illness in outback communities. Young children are falling 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 corporate greed and government corruption. If she obeys the law, the powerful will continue to break it.

The stakes are high, and the treacherous schemers will do anything to keep their deadly secrets. Lives don’t matter, not even hers.

Can they expose the plot before more lives are lost?

Will the formidable and ruthless forces behind the conspiracy stop them?