In Australia’s deep north, the law bends to the beautiful, brutal violence of nature. For those who seek to tame her, the unforgiving landscape demands that love end in murder.

A double murder in a tropical Australian bayou of crocodiles and mangrove swamps unravels a dynastic alliance between formidable fishing clans. An ill-fated love gone horribly wrong sees questions of guilt and complicity ripple out far beyond the killers. What are the unforeseen consequences of the small choices we all make in our lives? How does an unyielding landscape imprint upon us? And who do we become in a world without rules?

THE CAPE is a wrenching psychological journey into a story about the nature of guilt and complicity born of the unsuspecting power of the small choices we all make in our lives. Choices that, once accumulated one upon the other, become possessed of a cascading force.

It is set in a small world within an unending expanse. A tiny community of hard-bitten fishing clans who work the waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia’s remote, Western Cape York Peninsula and live in ramshackle coastal encampments amid the mangrove swamps.