Then: Ten-year-old best friends Nate Delany and Adam Murphy spent their days exploring the creek, climbing trees, and talking through the fence with Joe, a gentle artist locked away in the River Park Lunatic Asylum. To them, Joe wasn’t insane—just misunderstood. But one day, Joe vanished, and life went on.
Now: In their thirties, Nate, a P.I., and Adam, a psychologist, share office space in Stones Corner, Brisbane. When they receive an inheritance from Joe, a man they assumed was long dead, the mystery of his disappearance resurfaces.
As they dig deeper into Joe’s past, they uncover secrets buried in the asylum’s shadowy history. But the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous their investigation becomes. Some mysteries refuse to stay buried…
