The Whispering Island

When Lorna Sinclair loses her job following a violent outburst, she heads north in a battered van, searching for the truth about her birth family. Her only clue leads her to Stormforth - a deserted Scottish island now pervaded by the eerie thrum of a windfarm. But the remote island holds strange secrets and takes a grip on Lorna's mind. As the hypnotic turbines drone on, she dreams of curses, lockets and murder.

Nearly fifty years earlier, sixteen-year-old Senga Niven falls pregnant by a married landowner. Beaten and shunned by her own family, she plots her escape. But before she can flee, an unspeakable tragedy befalls the man she loves. Senga's grief curdles into something dangerous and her revenge will leave a bloody mark upon Stormforth.

With a violent storm closing in, Lorna unearths skeletons from the past and uncovers a truth that binds her fate to Senga's in ways she never imagined. Trapped on the island and pursued by a dark figure, Lorna must fight for her life and decide whether to repeat the violence of the past or break free from it.

A haunting, atmospheric thriller about inherited trauma and buried history, The Whispering Island asks whether we can ever truly rid ourselves of the marks of the past.