The island / Adrian McKinty.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 375 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733646010; 0733646018Subject(s): Teenagers -- Fiction | Hit-and-run drivers -- Fiction | Islands -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Stepmothers -- Fiction | Islands -- Australia -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Family vacations -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together. When they discover remote Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it's up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don't trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead.
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After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together. When they discover remote Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it's up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don't trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead.
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