ISBN 978-1-923763-52-4
PAPERBACK

Spirit Risen

 

Existence is fragile but the past leaves its mark

Two story-lines intertwine between two very different times in the remote Tasmanian wilderness around Cradle Mountain. Hannah, a graduate scientist takes a break and travels with friend Emma to Cradle Mountain to work in the Lodge. The year is 1990. On her first night at the Lodge, during a fierce storm, she thinks she sees a dark face with pin-point red eyes staring at her through the rain-soaked window. So begins a journey of discovery.

In 1836, Charlotte and her family are trying to eek out a living on a parcel of land gifted to them by the government. Charlotte, against dire warning from her father, befriends an indigenous man and his family. She begins to sense something, another world or time. Charlotte sets out on a quest to discover what is the meaning of her visions.

Meanwhile, in 1990, a group of scientists is using the Lodge as a base for their preliminary research into finding viable DNA of a thylacine with the aim of genetic extinction reversal. Hannah questions if this is ethically the right thing to do. One shocking discovery will change Hannah’s whole world.