The same dream has haunted Jason Conti for the past month. He wakes with the fear from a lost and lonely boy hiding in a darkened warehouse where outside a security guard and a large vicious Rottweiler arrive with malicious intent. If it wasn’t for the terrible events of late last year, Jason may have dismissed the dream as the stress of the approaching schoolyear. However, after those fateful events, he now sees the world through an affected lens and senses that this reoccurring dream isn’t just the manifestation of an overactive imagination. Jason already suspects this boy is dead, and it’s up to him to find his remains and bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

Tranmere Gasworks closed just before Christmas. The gasworks has always been on Jason’s street just like Goat Hill, his school, and the river; places that added colour to his once idealistic neighbourhood. However, when the owners closed the gates for the last time, it felt like just another nail in the coffin of his once happy childhood. And now, with a sense of death outside his front door once more, Jason must follow the thread of truth hidden behind the tall barbwire fence and once vicious dog, if he, and the boy from his dream, is to have any peace.

 

Unfortunately, Jason soon realises there is more at stake than answering the call from one lost and lonely spirit. Young boys are going missing at an alarming rate, and by the end of the first week of school, one is dead and two more are missing. Tranmere has quickly become a town suffocating under a blanket of fear and the local police have no motives, no suspects, and not a single clue.

 

Henry Williams—friend, mentor, and local Aboriginal Elder—sends Jason prophetic words of approaching danger, from both man and nature. And barely a week later, when the heavens open unleashing a flood that threatens to be the biggest in Tranmere’s history, Jason and his friends must race across their flooded town to rescue a boy from his neighbourhood and bring the killer’s reign of terror to an end.

 

However, as he recovers from his near fatal run-in with the Tranmere Killer, it becomes clear that his duty to the lost and lonely boy from the abandoned warehouse isn’t over. There is another secret hidden behind the walls of this so-called polite Christian society, and by the time the spirit of Christopher is reunited with his mother in the afterlife, a cancer that has been left too long to fester is finally exorcised, leaving Jason with scars on both his body and young but determined soul.

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