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July 28, 2018 AD
The kitchen is clean, Sammy is down, and for the first time all day nothing is required of Jenny. She sits in her own chair with a novel — and finds she has been using her son's prescription docket to mark her place in it. Then her own mouth puts her husband in the past tense, and her body, which has been carrying all of it since eleven o'clock the previous night, simply puts its hand up and says no.
July 28, 2018 AD
In the icy grip of a Tasmanian winter, Jenny Triffett begins to suspect her seemingly idyllic life is veiling something far more sinister. As she prepares for the day ahead, a single phone call sets off a chain of doubts—about her husband, her family, and the dark currents flowing just beneath the surface of their quiet Hobart life.
August 2, 2018 AD
The woman who finally pulls into Jenny's driveway is an hour late, unnervingly composed, and watching the street behind her as though something might step out of it. Jenny gets in anyway. Somewhere north of the city waits a dark house that may hold the truth about their missing husbands — and the further they drive, the more certain Jenny grows that Sharon already knows the way, and already knows what's inside. Every instinct says turn back. She keeps going.
July 30, 2018 AD
Monday, and the one place Jenny still knows how to stand is a classroom. She builds a face in the car park and walks into St Michael's to teach Wilde to her senior girls, certain the danger is a colleague's kindness and not her students. But when one of those girls is gentle with her, Jenny learns what three days of fear has done to the way she looks at people.
July 28, 2018 AD
Jenny comes home to an empty driveway, a husband who has not rung, and one door standing open that has never been open in four years. In her husband's office she finds a list of names and addresses in his handwriting, several of them struck through so hard the pen has gone through the paper — and near the bottom, the name of the doctor who promised her that morning he would find out what was happening to her son.
August 4, 2018 AD
There is a stranger at Jenny's door, and he knows the name from Nial's notebook because it is his own. He says he can take her to her husband. Then Sammy is gone from his room, and there is no one left in the world for Jenny to call. What Luke Smith offers should be impossible — but her boy is on the far side of it, and a mother doesn't need to believe in a door to walk through it.
August 4, 2018 AD
Jenny has crossed into the impossible to find her family — and she finds them, on an endless plain beneath a stranger's sky. But every door has shut behind her, no one else can see the danger standing in plain view, and the girl who took her son has ended up exactly where she always meant to be. Some reunions are not a rescue. Some are the sound of the trap closing.
July 30, 2018 AD
The afternoon is a thing to be got through, and somehow Jenny gets through it. But when the last bell has gone and the building has emptied, Rufus from the room next door puts his head round her door and asks, plainly, whether she is all right — and his kindness undoes what three days of policemen could not. She tells him the one thing she has told nobody. And then she has to run after him.
August 2, 2018 AD
Four women converge on Luke Smith's house from different angles. Kate watches two strangers break in while searching for her missing son. Jenny and Sharon flee in terror, unaware they're being observed. Sarah photographs them from her surveillance position. Gladys arrives drunk with a bottle of wine. None of them see the full picture. Then a gunshot changes everything.
July 29, 2018 AD
Somebody is in the house. Jenny goes towards them with a lump of granite in her fist, and they are gone through a locked back door before she reaches the kitchen — leaving a photograph on the step. And by the end of the night she is holding the only thing that could save her, and she cannot use it.
July 28, 2018 AD
Two police officers come up the mountain in the rain, and one of them asks Jenny about her marriage. She has a second to decide, and she gives them a good one. Then a text arrives from her husband's phone telling her not to wait up — and it is signed, and in eleven years he has never once signed a message to his wife, and she is the only person in the room who can hear it.
July 31, 2018 AD
Jenny goes back to the empty house for clean clothes and finds, in her own drawer, something no version of her marriage can hold: another woman's underwear, worn, left among her things. Then a text from an unknown number — Serena — tells her Nial has been seen alive, down at the wharf, with a woman, looking friendly. In the space of a minute, four days of terror curdle into fury, and Jenny stops looking for a victim and starts hunting a liar.
August 2, 2018 AD
The intruder in Jenny's home was never a stranger at all. She is someone Jenny sees every week, someone trusted around children — and she has had a key for months. In one impossible conversation on a cold bathroom floor, every unexplained thing about the last half-year rearranges itself into a single shape, and it is worse than anything Jenny had imagined. The monster had a face all along. She just never thought to look this close.
August 2, 2018 AD
Jenny comes home from the worst night of her life to find her own house has turned into a stranger's. There is no one to tell, nothing to be done with what she has seen, and a grief for her husband and son that finally takes her legs out from under her. But at the very bottom of it, past the point where there's nothing left to strip away, she finds the one thing no one can take. A reason to stand back up.
July 28, 2018 AD
Jenny has rung the police and been asked, gently, whether there is any reason to think her husband might not want to be found. She is standing at the window waiting for them when a car comes up the street — and it is her mother, straight from a concert platform, in her good coat, unannounced. Rowena has been reading performances for sixty years, and there has never been one of Jenny's that worked on her.
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny takes Sammy to her mother's house in Battery Point, and finds the piano lid down — which it has not been since the eleven months after her father died. On the verandah Rowena asks her, without a single edge on it, whether going to the police station is really the best course of action; and Jenny hears herself tell her mother that nobody has spoken to Nial in over forty-eight hours. It is twenty-four.
July 29, 2018 AD
Rowena offers to stand by her daughter whatever trouble Nial might be in — and Jenny hears the verdict inside the kindness. Sammy comes back with his shoes on the wrong feet, and his father's story about how to fix them is gone. And by the time the light dies, Jenny has decided that she cannot sit still any longer, which would be a great deal more impressive if she had the first idea where to go.
August 3, 2018 AD
A day spent waiting on a phone that won't ring back. Sharon has gone silent, Sammy has started saying things no child should know, and every locked door in the house feels like it's keeping the danger in rather than out. Then the phone finally rings — an unknown number, no voice at all. Just breathing, slow and deliberate, and the dawning certainty that whatever has been watching is no longer content to only watch.
July 31, 2018 AD
Another day survived, and Jenny is alone in her classroom again when three of her senior girls appear in the doorway — they have noticed, they have been talking, and they have a plan. They want to take Nial's disappearance to the whole of Hobart. Jenny knows what going public could cost, and what it might invite in. She also knows she has run out of other doors to knock on.
From Tasmanian theatre stages to teaching drama in Hobart, Jenny Triffett's life shatters when her husband vanishes in 2018. Her desperate search unveils watchers in shadows and violations that defy explanation. But when she and young Sammy are forced through a portal to Clivilius, Jenny's story transforms—from earthly nightmare to inter-dimensional journey. Reunited with Nial in this strange new world, she must rebuild everything whilst navigating realities beyond imagination. Her Archive spans two worlds, chronicling a mother's fierce love transcending dimensional boundaries.
LockedJuly 28, 2018 AD
Jenny Triffett watches her husband through the bathroom steam. Something's off. The pre-dawn phone call, the whispered words, the guarded demeanour. She plays the part of the loving, supportive wife—a role she's perfected so well she sometimes forgets where the act ends. Nial says he's getting details on a new job. She smiles, squeezes his shoulder, maintains the performance. This is what actresses do: keep the show running even when the script no longer makes sense.
July 31, 2018 AD
With the shaking gone and something colder in its place, Jenny makes two decisions in the dark of her own driveway. She will not go back to the police — she will not hand Linda Powell the runaway husband she always wanted. And she rings the one person left who might actually find him: Jack Reilly, an old university friend she has not spoken to in years, who took a different road into other people's secrets. He agrees to help. He also hears, at once, that she is not telling him everything — and she proves him right before the night is out.
August 3, 2018 AD
Jenny gives Sammy one perfect, ordinary evening, holding the fear at arm's length by sheer will. Then, alone with the late news, two reports turn everything inside out — and she realises the whole of Tasmania is now searching for a woman who looks exactly like her. She reaches for the one person who might understand. The reply comes back four words long, and there is no comfort anywhere in it.
January 15, 2025 AD
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.
July 31, 2018 AD
In the school library, with the last of the daylight going, Jenny and three of her girls build the thing she swore she would never make: a notice. Her husband reduced to a height and a shirt and a ute, cropped away from his own son, handed to strangers to scroll past. And when it is written, there is nothing left to do but put it where the whole of Hobart can see it — and whoever else is watching.
July 29, 2018 AD
Sammy is sent out to hunt a cat so that the adults can talk, and Jenny gives her mother the police station. Rowena says that a mother's instinct is rarely wrong — the first time in two days that anybody has simply believed her. Then Jenny puts the name Luke Smith down on the kitchen table, and her mother picks it up.
August 2, 2018 AD
Behind the locked door is a cellar, and in the cellar is something Jenny has no name for and will never be able to unsee. Whatever she thought she'd find when she went looking for her husband, it was not this — not the dark, not the smell, not the thing crouched in the middle of it that lifts its head and looks back at her. She came for answers. She leaves with a warning, and a silence she's been ordered to keep.
July 28, 2018 AD
Driving back up the mountain with Sammy asleep behind her, Jenny catches herself doing something she has never done in eleven years of marriage: working out what to tell her husband. Not lying — editing. And when she finally makes her son a promise out loud, she hears the half-beat in her own voice, the one she has spent a career drilling out of other people, and cannot tell from the inside whether she meant it.
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny comes home to an empty house and finds the deadbolt exactly where she left it. Her husband's work clothes are gone from the wardrobe and his overnight bag with them — and she cannot be certain they were there when she got dressed in that room at six o'clock this morning. Then she opens the drawer that sticks.
July 28, 2018 AD
In the sandpit in the dark, Sammy tells his mother that he did not open the back door, and that a man with colours coming out of his hands made a circle like a door and took Buffy through it. For four seconds Jenny is flooded with relief — because a child who sees rainbows is a child with an illness, and an illness has a name and a doctor and a Tuesday. Then she remembers the dog.
August 1, 2018 AD
The two hours pass and Karl Jenkins never rings back. Alone in the dark, working uselessly through the last names in Nial's life, Jenny takes a call from a stranger — Sharon Pafistis, who found the Facebook post, and whose husband Adrian left an ordinary Sunday morning and never came home. The same story. The same police lie. Two men gone from one small city in a single weekend — and Jenny stops being able to believe it a coincidence. They agree to meet.
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny drives to her mother's house unable to decide whether she half-knows the name Luke Smith or is manufacturing a memory because she needs one. In the hallway she stops at her own wedding photograph — taken half a second after her husband leaned in and whispered "I love you, Mrs Triffett" — and then her son asks her the one question nobody else has dared to.
July 28, 2018 AD
Dr Carmichael has read the results and calls them interesting — which Jenny recognises at once as the word people reach for when they have run out of the others. In his consulting room she finally says out loud the things she has spent nine days refusing to think: the pattern of toys, the gateway, the shape the bruises are making. Then Sammy sits up and speaks in a voice she does not recognise, and she looks to the doctor to find out whether she is mad.
July 28, 2018 AD
Jenny waits with Sammy in the paediatric clinic, reading the room the way she has read a hundred rooms before, and finding that this one will not be read. Then her son looks up from the train set and tells her, quite calmly, that the shadows are quiet here — and the nurse calls his name before she can ask him what he means.
July 28, 2018 AD
As Jenny prepares for a crucial doctor’s appointment with her young son, the cracks in her family’s fragile routine begin to show. Amid the soft chaos of toddlerhood and a steady Tasmanian drizzle, an unfamiliar presence on the street hints that her suspicions may not be just in her head.
LockedJuly 28, 2018 AD
Sammy needs his other sandal. The toothpaste is on the mirror. Buffy wants attention. Just another Saturday morning getting ready for the doctor—except for the bruises Jenny can't explain, the nightmares that wake Sammy screaming. "Will the doctor make the bad dreams go away, Mummy?" She performs normality. But as she buckles him into the car, she feels it: the prickling sensation of being watched. A car across the street. Tinted windows. The routine continues, but something is very wrong.
July 29, 2018 AD
A detective from Major Crime listens to Jenny's account of the last morning of her marriage — and while she is giving it, the memory comes loose in her hands and she cannot say for certain which came first, the mirror or the phone. He asks her to tell him the truth, and she goes off like a bomb, because she has not told anybody the truth since Saturday. Then he asks whether she knows a Luke Smith.
August 2, 2018 AD
The house keeps its silence, and Nial's office is wrong — emptier than Jenny left it, though she can no longer trust her own memory of what was ever there. A phone call with her small son is the only warmth left in it. Then Sharon rings: she's turned a name into an address, and she's already in the car. It should be pure hope. So why does Jenny slip a torch into her bag before she goes to the window to wait?
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny reports her husband missing to her own sister-in-law, and is told that a text message counts as contact and that officially he is not missing. She makes a scene in a public lobby and watches herself do it. Then a detective she has never seen walks up behind her without a sound, and takes her into a room with a mirror down one wall — and waits.
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny wakes before dawn on the Sunday certain that her son has gone in the night as well. He has not — he is warm against her back, and he had asked for his father twice at bedtime, and she had done the bear voice wrong and he had said nothing about it. She rings her husband's phone for the eleventh time, and then she stops waiting for anybody else to find him and starts working the telephone herself.
For six months, Serena had a key to Jenny's house. Six months of midnight visits, watching Sammy sleep, singing lullabies in the dark. Nial caught her. Confronted her. Then vanished. Now Jenny sits in the wreckage of her sanctuary, forcing herself to rewind through the last week—the days everything fell apart. She thought she was losing her mind. She thought Nial was having an affair. But what if it was all manufactured? What if every strange moment was Serena?
July 29, 2018 AD
Jenny rings her mother, who asks the one question she cannot answer. Then Sammy comes into the kitchen barefoot and starts to ask where his father is, and she talks straight over the top of him — and tells him he is going to have an exciting day. She makes him Vegemite toast, and for a minute and a half she is completely all right.
August 2, 2018 AD
The trail of Nial's disappearance leads to a locked house that isn't hers, and a friend who happens to know how to get inside. Jenny has never broken a law in her life. But she has never had a husband vanish without a trace either, and the door is right there, and the answers might be just behind it. Some lines, once crossed, don't let you back over them.
August 1, 2018 AD
By the fifth day the fear has worn down into something colder, and Jenny does the thing she swore in the dark of her car she never would: she rings the police. She wants the truth out of Karl Jenkins — and gives him none of her own, burying the sighting that would let them close the case as a walkout. He stonewalls her, softens, and then, mid-plea, something lands on his desk and he is gone. Two hours, he says. She sits down in the cold to wait for a call she is already not sure will come.
August 2, 2018 AD
Sharon's taillights disappear. Jenny stands alone under a streetlight, hands shaking, the image of the creature replaying every time she blinks. She stumbles home to her sanctuary. Except it's not empty. In one nightmare night, Jenny discovers monsters come in two forms—the impossible creature that feeds in empty houses, and the human predator who's been entering her home for months, watching her sleep, singing lullabies to her son.
July 30, 2018 AD
Jenny has not slept — she stayed in the house all night because if her husband came home she wanted to be there. Now it is Monday, and she is going to work, and before she goes she asks her mother to lock the doors and not take Sammy out. She does not tell her that somebody was standing in her living room the night before. She tells her something else instead.
LockedJuly 29, 2018 AD
Jenny crosses the threshold from private dread into institutional indifference. Her husband missing, her son asking questions she can't answer, her dog gone. Linda—her own sister-in-law—cites procedure: one text message counts as contact. Not missing. Come back in forty-eight hours. Jenny's fist slams the counter. Heads turn. Then a voice cuts through: a detective wearing guilt beneath his sleeve and bandages under his glove. Karl Jenkins steps forward when the system steps back. One act of compassion that might pull him deeper into darkness.
July 28, 2018 AD
Jenny wakes at quarter past five in a dark house and thinks, first of all, about a chicken. Then she finds the office door wider than she left it, the blotter bare where she had smoothed a sheet of paper flat and squared it with her own hand, and her husband's phone going straight to voicemail without ringing. And then she opens her son's door.
LockedJuly 29, 2018 AD
Jenny Triffett walks into Hobart Police Station desperate for help—her husband Nial vanished after a mysterious phone call, and now their dog is gone too. But the system has no time for her fears. A single text message becomes a bureaucratic barrier, turning genuine terror into dismissed concern. Until Detective Karl Jenkins, haunted by his own transgressions and recognising a pattern no one else will see, steps forward to listen.
August 2, 2018 AD
A stranger comes to Jenny's classroom undone — and the first thing they share isn't their missing husbands but a child's poem on the wall, because the woman's daughter is Jenny's own quiet pupil. Over cold tea they lay their two vanishings side by side and find them identical, down to the last frightened word and the single name threaded through both. For the first time, Jenny isn't alone.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Gladys Cramer wasn’t looking for trouble—just a quiet glass of red and maybe a cat that actually came when called. But when a Portal opens, a body turns up, and a man with too many secrets begs her trust, Gladys is pulled into something vast, strange, and far too dangerous. She doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t want the job. Dryly funny, quietly furious, and not at all qualified—Gladys is about to learn that staying out of it doesn’t mean staying safe.
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.
