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When an injured teenager goes missing at a remote bushland campground, local journalist Abby Bardot is determined to expose the area’s dark history. The girl bears a striking resemblance to the victims of three brutal murders that occurred 20 years ago, and Abby fears the killer is still on the loose. But the newspaper Abby works for wants to suppress the story for fear it will scare off tourists to the struggling township. Haunted by her own turbulent memories, Abby is desperate to learn the truth and enlists the help of Tom Gabriel, a reclusive crime writer.

Lucy Briar has arrived home in turmoil after years overseas. She's met her fiancé in London and has her life mapped out, but something is holding her back. Hoping to ground herself and find answers, Lucy settles into once familiar routines. But old tortured feelings flood Lucy's existence when her beloved father, Ron, is hospitalised and Morgan - the man who drove her away all those years ago - seeks her out. Worse, Ron implores Lucy to visit Bitterwood Estate, the crumbling historic family guesthouse now left to him.

When you're all that stands between the murderous past and the fate of those you love, how far would you go to save them? When Audrey Kepler inherits an abandoned homestead in rural Queensland, she jumps at the chance to escape her loveless existence in the city and make a fresh start. In a dusty back room of the old house, she discovers the crumbling photo of a handsome World War II medic - Samuel Riordan, the homestead's former occupant - and soon finds herself becoming obsessed with him.

Ruby Cardel has the semblance of a normal life – a loving boyfriend, a career she loves – but in one terrible moment, her life begins to unravel. The discovery that the death of her beloved sister, so many years ago, was not the accident she’d always been told makes her question all she’s known about herself. Travelling back home to Lyrebird Hill, the beautiful bushland property where she grew up with her mother and sister, Ruby begins to remember the year that has been blocked in her memory.

Ruby Cardel besitzt einen kleinen Buchladen, und seit sie mit dem erfolgreichen Ratgeberautor Rob Thistleton zusammenlebt, scheint ihr Glück perfekt. Doch Ruby fehlt die Erinnerung an ein ganzes Jahr ihres Lebens: das Jahr, in dem ihre Schwester Jamie im Fluss nahe der elterlichen Farm ertrank. Als sie nun zum ersten Mal wieder dorthin fährt, kommen nach und nach die Erinnerungen zurück - und Ruby ist zutiefst schockiert: Denn ihr wird plötzlich bewusst, dass Jamies Tod kein Unfall war.

Die Dämonen der Vergangenheit: Nach Jahren im Ausland kehrt Lucy Briar wieder nach Melbourne zurück. Sie möchte ein ruhiges Leben führen, doch als ihr Vater Ron, zu dem Lucy lange keinen Kontakt mehr hatte, ins Krankenhaus kommt, wird sie mit den Geistern der Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Lucys Vater bittet sie, in Bitterwood Estate, dem mittlerweile halb verfallenen Gästehaus der Familie, nach einem alten Fotoalbum zu suchen.