Shalimar

Duncan Watson is having a bad day. He's getting married at 11am. But he's woken up in the mangroves with no idea how he got there, and his wallet and phone are missing. Then he hears a car. Has his best man come to get him? To apologise for the prank gone wrong? Duncan reaches the road just as two men are dragging a body into a ditch. Later, the police reassure Duncan that it's unlikely the killers will pursue him. However, Duncan's unconvinced. He's seen them up close. And they have his wallet. Back in Brisbane, a long way from his planned honeymoon in Tahiti, Duncan wonders how it all went so wrong. And then it gets worse. Soon Duncan is on the run – and he's taken his eighty-two-year-old father along for the ride. Duncan's about to learn there's nothing he won't do to protect the people he loves. Samantha Wood is the author of the memoir, Culua: My Other Life in Mexico, which was published in 2003. The Bay of Shadows, her first novel, was published in December 2016 and was inspired by the beach town where she grew up. Her follow-up novel, Under Ten Thousand Stars, a love story set in wine country, was released in May 2019.She began her writing career with a travel piece for the Qantas In-Flight magazine. From then on, she travelled extensively between Mexico and Australia before writing the memoir, Culua: My Other Life in Mexico, a love letter to her mother's country. She went on to write The Bay of Shadows, a novel about the unconventional bonds of love, and Under Ten Thousand Stars, another tale of love against the odds. Her third novel, The Song of Clouds, set on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, and the final book in the Coastal Noir Trilogy, was released on February 28, 2022. She lives in a coastal town outside of Melbourne, Australia.To keep up with all her book news, head over to her website where you can sign up for her monthly newsletter:www.samanthawoodauthor.comwww.instagram.com/samanthawoodauthorwww.facebook.com/samanthawoodauthor