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A tense and unpredictable thriller

Adrian McKinty Loot.co.za (R220) ORION | OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE ISLAND

IT WAS just supposed to be a family holiday. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't know what you're capable of until they come for your family.

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 trip overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom.

When they discover a remote

Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talk their way on to the ferry.

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.

Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive.

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