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Sarah Lockley is a corporate attorney and a British expatriate living in Seattle. On the final outing of the summer, her husband rents a house by a lake near the mountain town of Glacier Peak, deep in the Cascade Mountains.
The town presents itself as cultured and relaxed, with restaurants, galleries, and seasonal festivals. Sarah senses something beneath the surface. The owner of the rental, a writer with money and influence, takes an unusual interest in her. Across the lake stands an abandoned house on a small island, the site of murders decades earlier. The past lingers, and certain topics are avoided.
As Sarah begins to notice patterns others dismiss, she is drawn into a closed world shaped by wealth, secrecy, and a shared way of thinking that resists scrutiny. Technology plays a quiet role in how this world functions, reinforcing boundaries that are rarely acknowledged.
A gothic literary thriller, The House on the Island explores the intersection of technology and misogyny within systems built to endure by powerful men who operate in the shadows.
“Echoes of The Stepford Wives and The Handmaid’s Tale, taken somewhere far darker.”
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“A parable about the body horror imposed on women under totalitarian systems.”
Early reader
It is the year 2135. Years after a devastating war known as the Doomsday War, the world is picking up the pieces. Old geopolitical rivalries are reborn, and new threats emerge that could completely change the world order.
In the depths of the Mediterranean lies the wreckage of an advanced fighter jet, carrying an antimatter warhead. Sharon McLeod, a member of the United States' most elite special operations group, SG1, is tasked with recovering it before it falls into enemy hands. But this race against time is more than a test of her formidable skills and tactical brilliance. It becomes a journey of self-discovery as Sharon confronts unexpected entanglements with two beautiful women, a secret she has kept from the world, and fundamental challenges to her self-identity. Whatever happens, she will not emerge from this as the same woman.