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'Unputdownable'

CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD, author of THE END OF MEN

'Clever and insidious'

DANA SCHWARTZ, author of ANATOMY: A LOVE STORY

It starts with an itch.

In 1970s America, in homes across the country, women aged eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.

Tired. Vacant. Restless.

Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it's calling them home, they abandon their lives -- jobs, families, their very selves. And once they reach the West, they vanish forever.

At the centre of the story are three young women caught in the pull of something unstoppable.

Aimee follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man called the Piper -- known for leading infected women West.

Teenie, afflicted and unravelling, clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper's van.

And Eve, a former journalist, is chasing the story that might just consume her . . .

'A taut and shocking debut'

ANNA NORTH, author of OUTLAWED

'An all-American fever dream'

Lee Clay Johnson, author of Nitro Mountain