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October 30, 1987 AD
As breakfast unfolds in the Jennings household, Cody scrambles to hold himself together while the family moves around him in its usual rhythm. But when Jeremiah finally appears — down the stairs, fresh-faced, as if he'd been there all night — the relief is tangled with something darker. And Janice, quiet at the end of the table, is adding pieces to a puzzle no one else knows exists.
July 25, 2018 AD
The morning after, Freya climbs down to the Portal Cave and finds her father on his knees in the broken glass. What he's about to confess is worse than the bottle he threw—and his daughter is the one person alive who won't let him hide from it.
October 30, 1987 AD
The morning after changes everything — and nothing. Cody wakes late with the Portal Key still in his hand, a cut on his foot he can't explain, and no way of knowing whether Jeremiah kept his promise and came back. The house is already moving around him. And the person most likely to notice something's wrong is the one who already noticed it last night.
July 25, 2018 AD
Four people gather in candlelight to mourn a boy they never knew. Beatrix arrives wound tight from the gala, still in her cursed black dress. Gladys brings scented candles and questions. Luke wakes to uninvited company. Cody arrives early with whiskey and warnings. In the flicker of flames, they toast Joel—Jamie's son, nineteen, dead under tragic circumstances. But beneath the grief, secrets simmer. And Cody's final words linger: "Death is but a mere process."
October 29, 1987 AD
With Jeremiah upstairs and the house holding its breath, the Jennings family does what families do when the guest is out of earshot — they turn on each other. What follows is a kitchen-table reckoning that cuts closer to bone than anyone expected, and leaves Cody wondering whether the person his family doesn't trust might not be Jeremiah at all.
July 24, 2018 AD
Left alone in Gladys’s house after orchestrating her next move, Cody confronts the quiet consequences of his manipulation. When a near accident at the Portal forces him to face how far he’s slipped between duty and desperation, Cody must reckon with the truth he’s been avoiding: sometimes, the ones you’re trying to protect are the ones you’re already pulling under.
July 24, 2018 AD
Back in Belkeep with a storm coming on, Cody meets the one bright thing the settlement has left—young Krid—and gives her a small island-shaped magnet and a promise: a new Guardian is coming, from a place called Tasmania. But his daughter Freya wants her missing brother searched for, not soothed with hope, and Krid seems to know things she shouldn't.
October 29, 1987 AD
With the Portal Key in his hand and his family sleeping down the hall, Cody opens a door to another world — his world, though he doesn't know it yet. What waits on the other side isn't wonder. It's darkness, silence, and the bone-deep cold of a place that has never known a living thing. And the voice that greets him by name.
October 30, 1987 AD
With the farm empty and the trough done, Cody does what any nineteen-year-old with a key to another world would do. This time he's got boots on and daylight waiting on the other side. But Clivilius doesn't grade on effort — and the cave that looked like an adventure from the entrance has its own way of teaching respect. What the daylight reveals beyond it is vaster, emptier, and more his than anything he's ever stood on.
A restless farmhand from Gawler, South Australia, transformed by a chance encounter in a country pub. At nineteen, Cody Jennings crossed through a Portal into another world and never truly returned. What followed was a life split between dimensions—founding the frozen settlement of Belkeep, raising twin children without their mother, and carrying secrets that isolated him from everyone he loved. His archive preserves the consciousness of a man who gambled everything on an audacious plan he would never see fulfilled.
July 24, 2018 AD
Alone in the Portal Cave among the dark screens of Guardians long dead, Cody settles the decision he's been circling: it's time to bring the last one through and complete the team. Freya, worn thin by loss, has no faith left in his promises—so he sheds his coat, fixes on a kitchen a world away, and steps back to Earth on the only thing he has left. Hope.
July 25, 2018 AD
Cody comes up the hill to Luke's house meaning to make good on a promise—and walks into the middle of something far worse than he bargained for. A truck in the driveway with its door up, a voice he knows and dreads, and a name out of his past he'd hoped he was done with for good.
July 25, 2018 AD
Cody hauls his prisoner home to the Portal Cave, and in the cold and the after-shakes of the fight he comes up hard against the easiest thing in the world: killing a helpless man who has it coming. There's a dead boy and an unmet Guardian waiting back across the crossing, and no time at all to feel any of it.
July 24, 2018 AD
Cody crosses back to Gladys's house in the dead of night and reads betrayal into two empty bottles and a sound from her room—only to find her alone in a nightmare, and himself, in trying to help, the very thing she wakes to fear. He blurts the truth about Clivilius and runs. Alone in the Portal Cave, he shatters the last of what they were against the rock, and knows it was his own hand that ended it.
July 25, 2018 AD
Joel Gibbons lies dead in a delivery truck outside Luke's Berriedale home. Gladys and Beatrix Cramer are covered in blood, clutching a manifest and unravelling explanations. Then a man appears in the driveway—someone who knows Luke's name without introduction, who examines the body with unsettling calm, who says he's been "waiting." Four people stand around Joel's corpse. Someone knows what happened. Someone knows too much. Someone isn't telling the truth.
July 24, 2018 AD
In suburban Claremont, Cody plays a dangerous game of persuasion as he manoeuvres Gladys toward a choice that could change both their lives — and the balance between worlds. But as his manipulation blurs with genuine affection, Cody discovers that even the smallest lies can start avalanches neither side is ready to survive.
October 30, 1987 AD
Cody steps back through the portal and finds himself in Kenneth's room — whole, alive, and changed in ways he can't yet name. But the night has one more revelation left, and it rewrites everything Cody thought he understood about why Jeremiah came to Gawler in the first place.
October 29, 1987 AD
As the Kingsford Smith empties and the evening narrows to two, Cody finds himself drawn deeper into conversation with a stranger who asks questions nobody else thinks to ask. What begins as pub talk becomes something harder to walk away from — and when the moment comes to say goodnight, Cody makes a choice he can't fully explain, even to himself.
October 29, 1987 AD
Alone in the dark with his family's doubts still ringing in his ears, Cody tries to do the sensible thing and call it a night. But the house he's known his whole life won't let him rest — something is wrong upstairs, something that has no name and no explanation. And the closer he gets to it, the less certain he becomes that the stranger in Kenneth's room is what he thought he was.
October 29, 1987 AD
After a long day on the farm, Cody heads to the Kingsford Smith Pub looking for nothing more than a cold beer and familiar faces. But when a group of strangers rolls in and the evening takes an unexpected turn, one of them — a young bloke with sharp eyes and the right questions — starts pulling at threads Cody didn't know were loose.
July 25, 2018 AD
Cody climbs back up the hill to Luke's braced for the worst, and finds it—Gladys white-faced at the truck with blood on her shoes, and past her, at last, the man he's waited his whole life for: on his knees over a dead boy, looking nothing at all like the saviour of anyone's prophecy.
July 23, 2018 AD
On a quiet jetty in Glenelg, Cody Jennings reunites with his long-lost mentor Jeremiah, whose sudden return shatters three years of silence and peace. As news of Port Stower’s destruction ripples through both worlds, Cody is thrust back into impossible decisions — torn between loyalty to Clivilius, his dwindling settlement, and a revelation that could rewrite everything the Guardians believe.
July 24, 2018 AD
She thinks she's confiding in her lover. He knows he's executing a mission. When Gladys returns from Luke's house with suspicions and a bizarre shopping list, Cody is waiting on her verandah with wine and calculated comfort. Two perspectives on the same conversation reveal how easily affection becomes manipulation when one person knows far more than the other—and how the kindest advice can serve the cruelest purposes.
July 24, 2018 AD
Alone in Gladys's house after sending her to help Luke, Cody opens a Portal home—right through her fridge. When Snowflake and Chloe dart towards the swirling colours, disaster looms. In that split second of panic, a darker thought surfaces: if one of her beloved cats fell through, she'd have no choice but to follow. Standing between worlds, Cody confronts exactly how desperate he's become—and how thin the line between protection and manipulation really is.
October 29, 1987 AD
Some nights you walk into familiar places seeking nothing more than cold beer and quiet, only to discover the air's shifted whilst you weren't paying attention. Young Cody finds the Kingsford Smith Pub exactly as it's always been—worn timber, aviation memorabilia, locals playing chess—except for the stranger at the bar whose eyes carry the same restlessness that's been building in Cody's chest. Recognition arrives before introduction.
October 29, 1987 AD
The door opens, and everything Cody thought he knew falls apart. The stranger he defended to his family is more than a stranger — and the truth he carries is bigger than anything a farmhouse in Gawler was ever built to hold. What follows isn't wonder. It's a reckoning.
October 29, 1987 AD
Cody brings a stranger home to the Jennings farm expecting his family's natural hospitality to smooth the way. What he gets instead is something more complicated — a household that welcomes with one hand and watches with the other, and a growing awareness that he may have invited more than he bargained for into the heart of everything he loves.
October 30, 1987 AD
Out at the trough line with tools in hand, Cody finally has Jeremiah on his ground — doing real work, following real instructions, in a world that runs on sweat and galvanised pipe. But the man beside him is breaking apart in ways that have nothing to do with the farm. When the truth comes out — Strechna, Zenobias, a war that spans two worlds — Cody is left standing alone with a mended pipe, a family to deceive, and a task that will take him back to the place he's been trying not to think about since dawn.
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Beatrix Cramer survives on invention—faces borrowed, trails broken, truths bent just enough to pass. Between two worlds, she hides behind names that aren’t hers and choices that cut too close. Livestock heists, police stations, and broken families blur into a journey both absurd and perilous. But in Clivilius, disguise is never protection for long. Every mask has its weight, every trail its consequence—and Beatrix must decide whether she is escaping danger, or simply carrying it with her.
Thrown into an unfamiliar world with nothing but her medical kit and a backlog of questions, Dr. Glenda De Bruyn never asked to lead. But when strangers start arriving—wounded, lost, and dangerous—triage becomes survival. Each decision risks more than a life; it tests what remains of her logic, loyalty, and control. As the lines blur between science and myth, Glenda must confront not only the fractures in her patients—but the ones inside herself. In Clivilius, everyone bleeds. Not everyone gets patched up.
When a series of disappearances grips Tasmania’s remote edges, Detective Sarah Lahey is drawn into a case that threatens to unravel her—professionally and personally. As tensions flare with fellow detective Karl Jenkins, trust becomes a gamble neither can afford. In the search for truth, they’ll find the shadows run deeper than they imagined. Into the Dark is a haunting thriller about loyalty, obsession, and the cost of stepping beyond the light.
Joel Gibbons had never been anywhere. Hadn't finished school. Hadn't met his father. Hadn't done much except show up for his mum and hope that counted for something. A passport application changed everything—a name on a birth certificate, a coincidence that put him in the wrong place, and a death he didn't see coming. Joel should have stayed dead. Instead, he woke in glowing water—claimed before he even drew breath—gasping back to life with three words branded somewhere deeper than skin. You are mine.
In winter-locked Hobart, Jenny Triffett’s husband vanishes without warning. The police insist he left willingly. But Jenny sees signs others miss—bruises on her son, shadows that don’t belong. As her sense of reality begins to splinter, she finds an unlikely ally in Sharon Pafistis, another woman grasping for answers. Together, they uncover fragments of something dark and impossible to explain. But someone is watching. Someone knows what they’re doing. And the closer Jenny gets to the truth, the more she wonders if she’s saving her son—or walking straight into the trap.
Luke Smith's world transforms with the discovery of a cryptic device, thrusting him into the guardianship of destiny itself. His charismatic charm and unpredictable decisions now carry weight beyond imagination, balancing on the razor's edge between salvation and destruction. Embracing his role as a Guardian, Luke faces the paradox of power: the very force that defends also threatens to annihilate. As shadows gather and the fabric of reality strains, Luke must navigate the consequences of his actions, unaware that a looming challenge will test the very core of his resolve.
Men are vanishing across Tasmania, and Detective Senior Constable Karl Jenkins is running out of time, patience, and sanity. Every lead points to Luke Smith—but proving it means crossing lines Karl can't uncross. He breaks into houses without warrants. He sees faces in windows that shouldn't be there. He chases the wine-soaked Gladys Cramer through high-speed pursuits only for her to slip away. His partner becomes collateral damage. His sergeant's warnings go ignored. Karl knows something monstrous is happening on this island, and he'll tear through every boundary to expose it. Even if it destroys him.
Jamie Greyson was shoved through a Portal into a dimension that shouldn't exist, by a partner he no longer trusts. In the dust and desperation of Clivilius, the son he'd only just begun to know arrives with a slit throat and no heartbeat. The lagoon brings Joel back. But when Jamie begs for a second miracle, Clivilius answers with silence. Some debts, it seems, are only paid once.
