Umbra

Hannah is locked inside an old, empty shipping container with no idea where she is. No water, no fresh air, no way out. She’s all alone, except for the video camera that records her every breath, her every word. An anonymous voice promises to free her… if she makes a choice. Because, somewhere, there are two more containers like hers, and inside each of them are the two people Hannah knows and loves best. But only one of these container doors will ever open again, and it’s up to Hannah to choose which that will be.

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Disgraced hot-mess reporter Margot Cornish is broke and living out of her car when she sees the viral video of Hannah. Margot has no idea what she’s watching, much less understands why anyone would call it ‘art’. Her main concern is why the footage features her sister’s best friend; when Hannah has been missing, presumed dead, for four years — murdered because of a mistake that Margot made.

And why her estranged sister, Veronica, has given the shocking video’s anonymous and controversial creator, the Phobos Collective, star billing at the late-night arts and culture festival she runs, Umbra. The festival is billed as a place where night and firelight, freedom and anonymity, reign. It’s the perfect place to disappear.

But when another young woman vanishes from the festival, things grow dangerously real for both sisters. Because Vera is hiding a secret of her own and no one believes Margot’s claims that the Phobos Collective’s artworks are covering real crimes. Can Margot unravel the blurred reality of the festival long enough to find out the truth? Or will her wild assertions throw her and Vee into the path of a danger they might not both survive?