Those at the farm are shaken by Cameron’s death, but beneath the surface there seem to be plenty of other problems. Nathan’s isolation has been compounded by his ostracism by the thinly-spread local inhabitants following his failure to stop on the road for a man in trouble – Jacqui’s father. Nathan has lived alone for ten years since his wife Jacqui left in an acrimonious separation, taking their son Xander with her. The death brings Nathan back to the family farm, next to his own but several hours drive away. But how he came to be separated from his car, found nine kilometres away, is a mystery. Nathan and Bub Bright meet at Stockman’s Grave, where their brother Cameron sought shade from a solitary tombstone before he succumbed. Some 1500 kilometres west of Brisbane, a merciless summer sun means death to anyone unwise enough to stray far from their vehicle without plenty of water.
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