From best-selling and award-winning author David Metzenthen comes a powerful new novel. Better in here, they think. Safe and sound. No shocks and no surprises. Twenty one degrees Celsius all year-round. Ryan Lanyon lives in the shadows of a shopping mall on the far side of the city. His brother is a bouncer. His best mate owns weapons.

Ariel is a surf-shop girl who has never seen the sea. And the tragedies of the past will poison the future unless someone has the guts to cross the line.