He also eavesdrops the conversation between Bronte and Liam(his brother’s best friend’s son ) about he was the one to be blamed because of the deaths of three people. In the meantime Gabby Birch has drowned and her backpack was found by the authorities.Īfter 12 years fighting with his guilt feelings, depression, Kieran evolved into more caring, understanding, mature man with the help of Mia and his daughter’s support but seeing his broken parents who are still grieving his brother bring out the resentment, sadness he has been bottling up for years.Īnd as soon as he meets with his mates Ash, Sean, Olivia at Surf& Turf, the very same place Olivia and her new roommate art student Bronte works, the old memories start to come out, inner demons start to torture him. And his brother got a suicide mission to drive the boat to rescue him. They came back to help Kieran’s mother Verity and his father Brian who suffers from dementia to pack their belongings for moving out from the place.īut this journey opens so many can of worms of the tragic events related with disastrous storm who took two boys’ ( one of them is his own brother) and 14 years old Gabby’s ( who was also Mia’s best friend) lives because he just wanted to make out with a girl in the caves and it was too late he realized the tide was getting higher.

(fictional place) Kieran Elliott is our narrator, coming back to family house after building a new life with his girlfriend Mia in Sydney, raising their baby girl.

My fourth waltz with the author! She did it again! She did so much better this time! Rocked my world, broke my heart, made me fell in love with her beautiful writing and meticulously crafted characters one more time!Ī murder of young art student threatened the cocooned safety of coastal town by bringing out buried secrets, lies, guilt, injustice, wrong punishments, regrets of the past related with the big storm which took away three people’s lives and traumatized their families’ lives forever!

The last man jane harper