The summer takes a turn for the worse when young filmmaker Dakota Black returns to his Washington hometown to co-produce a series with a premium television network, and the screenplay becomes a chilling reality.
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"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
—Sir David Attenborough
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When five college students return to Friday Island, Washington, for the summer, they become entrenched in a conspiracy that involves hotshot Hollywood film executives and a dead orca whale. As the conspiracy continues to spin its dark web, the group's desire to expose the truth lures them into dangerous waters, where their involvement elicits fatal consequences.
E X T E N D E D S Y N O P S I S
Dakota Black isn't looking for fame.
He isn't even responsible for submitting his short film that wins numerous awards at a prestigious film festival in New York City. He has his ex-girlfriend to thank for that.
One year after skyrocketing to stardom, graduating high school, and moving to Los Angeles for film school, Dakota returns home to Friday Island, Washington, to co-produce an environmental drama series with a premium television network.
Maybe it's a pipe dream, but he's dead set on writing himself back into his old narrative through repairing the bridges he burned with his friends. But when the summer takes a turn for the worse as the series' screenplay becomes a chilling reality, Dakota is pressured to declare where his allegiances lie.
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Allix McGovern knows she's an elusive enigma.
Call it acute self-awareness or the result of growing up in a small town on a small island, where reputation and gossip sculpt reality. Either way, she returns to Friday Island determined to keep the reason why she skipped out on her second semester at NYU a secret and steer clear of drama.
Apparently, that's too steep of a request.
From the moment Allix steps off the ferry, the gravitational pull of a conspiracy forces her back into the island's orbit of secrets and rumors alongside her splintered group of friends. They think the beloved orca whale population is the target of an elaborate conspiracy. They think Dakota Black and his new Hollywood friends are responsible. They also think Allix is hiding something.
Everyone knows a lot can change in a year, but suddenly Allix starts second-guessing why everything on the island is not what it seems.
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environmentalism
coffee addicts
character deaths
ferry boats
teenagers solving mysteries
mature themes: eating disorders and mentions of self-harm. important note: none of the aforementioned will be romanticized. this story is focused on recovery.
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Welcome to APEX - a mystery / thriller novel set in the Pacific Northwest. I posted the first draft from January 2020 - January 2021, and updated the second in its entirety in May 2021.
Refrain from making ☆ fandom references ☆ of any kind. They hurt my brain and my soul.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
