The Seventeenth

DARK SECRETS. SURVIVAL. A ROMANCE.

To escape her secretly monstrous husband, a serial killer, Miriam reinvents herself in the quirky town of Two Rivers. She unexpectedly finds a connection with Mike, a police analyst haunted by ghosts. As their romance blossoms, Mike's supernatural gift uncovers a trail of murders leading back to Miriam's past, forcing them to confront a predator who believes he is above the law and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he considers his.

David Kernot is a South Australian author who writes contemporary fantasy, science fiction, climate fiction, crime thrillers, and horror and has eighty short story publications in anthologies throughout Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK. His work has appeared in over 30 different printed publications worldwide.

He is the indie author of Gaia's Guardians (2026), The Seventeenth (2026), Maralinga Winds (2026), Not Like Us (2024), Gateway Through Time (2020), Impossible Futures: The Collected Works (2020), Beam Rider (2015), The Search for Giselle (2014), Future Worlds (2014), Autumn Comes Slowly (2013), Panspermic Earth (2013), and The Early Years (2013).