For over a decade, thirty-five-year-old crime reporter Nathan Turner has only looked forward, keeping his attention firmly on his current exposé, ignoring his past as though it belonged to someone less fortunate; someone to be pitied. He met his wife during his early university studies, and since, have both been concerned with their respective careers: children and a family home something briefly discussed but postponed until more financially secure. Unfortunately, that ideal future is no longer possible since his wife tragically died during a freak out-of-season thunderstorm.

 

At first, Nathan handled her death stoically, putting all his energy into his work. However, that came to a sudden halt when he received access to his wife’s personal email accounts, and the correspondence she received from a local abortion clinic. After many weeks spiralling down into the abyss of blame and self-deprecation, he begrudgingly returned to his childhood home to rest and reevaluate his life choices.

 

Except for the funeral of his father, up until now Nathan had kept his visits to his mother’s home to short day trips and hasn’t venture out into the community or visited anyone from his past. For Nathan, his hometown represented nothing but anger and resentment; full of small-minded people that let fear and arrogance ruin the life of an innocent teenage boy. And although he was prepared to stay as long as he needed to clear his head and refocus his career, he planned on doing it behind closed doors. That was until Mother Nature stepped in and altered the course of his life, once more.

 

Nathan had barely enough time to unpack his bags before the townspeople’s unforgiving god unleashed the biggest flood in modern history, all but destroying the town, and unearthing many a terrible secret hidden behind the misdeeds of so-called good Christian-minded people. Secrets that offered Nathan the chance of redemption.

 

Unfortunately, during Nathan’s second year at the local catholic high school, his best friend, Chris McDermott, — the son of a local councilman and descendant from one of the town’s founders — disappeared without a trace on the same day he was admitted unconscious to hospital with injuries comparable to a vehicle hit-and-run. With no evidence or suspects for both his accident and the disappearance of his friend, the town and the authorities soon turned their attention towards Nathan and the theory that he’d killed his friend then faked an accident to cover his crimes. All Nathan could do to survive, was to concentrate on his studies with the thought of a better future far away from the place and people who betrayed him.

 

Now with the blessing from his mother, the help from an old school crush, and the artistic intuition of an itinerant man, Nathan puts to use his exceptional skills as an investigator, and the determination born from years of pent-up bellicosity and frustration, to uncover the terrible secrets many in this town have harboured for longer than Nathan has been alive, and to finally give peace to those that loved and lost his friend all those years before.