Newly-weds Liam and Laura are spending their honeymoon in paradise: just the two of them on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. But they soon discover that all is not as it seems, and the island has a tragic past. And they can’t shake the feeling of being watched… When one morning, they wake to find a message scratched into the window, their worst fears are confirmed. They aren’t alone on the island. And this stranger wants them dead.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Fatphobia and body shaming (on-page)
- Child abuse mentioned
- Domestic violence and intimate partner abuse including food deprivation, captivity, physical & sexual assault (on-page)
- Rape by a spouse/partner (on-page)
- Alcohol consumption
- Emesis
- Mentions of a parent recovering from cancer
- Physical injury and amateur medical treatment (on-page, glass shard stuck in foot)
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a fiance
- Death of a mother from a fall down the stairs (later revealed to be murder)
- Murder of a husband by gun violence (on-page, self-defence for abuse)
- Stalking
- Animal injury (crow)
- Kidnapping of a pet dog
- Murder of a kitten (abusive partner kills the cat off-page by the body is found on-page)
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