Sydney Harbour is beautiful because it knows how to keep secrets.
When a ferry erupts into flame beneath the city’s most watched skyline, journalist Sarah Hart is already there, camera raised, instincts burning hotter than the fire. What first looks like an accident refuses to stay contained. Witnesses disagree. Access points don’t make sense. Cargo appears where luggage should be. And official explanations arrive far too quickly.
As Sarah follows the edges rather than the spectacle, she uncovers a pattern hidden in plain sight… ferries that run light and return heavy, luxury addresses that double as blind spots, and movements through the harbour designed to vanish before anyone thinks to look twice.
Caught between political pressure, buried evidence, and a city determined to move on, Sarah must decide how much truth can surface before it’s forced back under water.
Because harbours don’t just hold ships.
They hold what people are willing to forget.
John Berry was born in Rhodesia. He lived there for six years and then emigrated to Durban, South Africa. He went to Marist Brothers College. After matriculation, he did national service as a paratrooper and fought in the Angolan war in 1975. He traveled extensively, lived in England for two years, then emigrated to Brisbane, Australia. He spends his time researching and writing fiction stories.