Ghost Paddock

Some ghosts are buried in land. Others in memory. When twenty-two-year-old Evie Laurens returns to her family's rural property in Millbrook after the death of her grandfather, she expects three quiet months of sorting paperwork and preparing the house for sale. But the land has other plans. The paddocks feel different. The sheep avoid one field like it's cursed. And when Evie finds an old photo marked with ochre and a hidden laptop filled with her brother Joel’s encrypted files, she starts to unravel a legacy far more tangled and dangerous, than she ever imagined. Haunted by grief and fuelled by questions no one in town wants to answer, Evie is pulled into a decades-old mystery surrounding her family, a secretive land deal, and the silent paddock locals refuse to name. As strange phenomena mount and buried truths claw their way to the surface, Evie must decide what’s worth holding onto: comfort, truth, or justice for the brother who never stopped searching.