
Missing. Lost. Dead?
People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They’re gone. Vanished.
Where do they go?
Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except she is not dead. Not lost. Tess has been taken.
Plucked from her taken-for-granted life and thrust into an impossible place, she must adapt to survive.
Is she trapped forever... or can she escape from The Contra?

Sometimes, it appears that you have all the fundamental sections in your life which should make you complete: a house, a husband, good friends, a supportive family, and the perfect job—yet still there’s something missing. Almost like a young child faced with their future as a series of jigsaw pieces they must collect and slot into place along the way; although I was lucky enough to have all of my pieces, the picture I was presented with when my jigsaw was finally complete appeared bland. It was not exciting. Somehow, there was still something missing, I just didn’t know what. My job, my husband, my family, all the major things in my life which I somehow cast aside and deemed as being not that important in relation to ‘finding myself’—I now realise they were the best things in my life unti
