Isabella's Island: The Wreck & the Wake
Isabella Thorne survives the wreck and washes onto an island that doesn't feel entirely empty.
At first, survival is simple in the blunt way survival always is: find shade, make shelter, ration what you can carry, and keep moving even when your body wants to quit. She builds a lean-to at the tree line, marks the beach for rescue, and follows the first reliable need inland: fresh water.
That's where the island changes.
A cave behind a waterfall. Grooves carved into stone that don't feel accidental. An overgrown village laid out with purpose. Spirals and star patterns repeating like a language she almost recognizes.
Izzy isn't chasing treasure. She isn't looking for answers to the universe. She's just trying to stay alive long enough to be found. But the deeper she walks, the clearer it becomes that someone once lived here carefully. Quietly. As if this place was built to last.
And some nights, when the jungle settles, she swears she can hear something beneath the natural sounds. Not a voice. Not quite. More like a low humming presence, threaded through the trees.
Isabella's Island: The Wreck & the Wake is Book One in The Spiral Gate Chronicles, a slow-burn survival mystery about solitude, endurance, and the strange things you notice when the world gets quiet.
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