The Past We Carry

By Vanessa Benford

One Accident. Two lives lost. Rewind.

What if you had the power to rewrite your family's history, but in doing so would change everything you've ever known? This is what Bianca must answer as she finds herself sent back in time to confront the tragedy that forever altered her lineage.

Bianca is in the middle of her second breakdown. She blames her mother, Frances, for the last one, sending her to stay at Northpark Mental Hospital. The scars from that experience have never healed. Although this time it's a little different, she's in 1979. Now she has a chance to break the chain of events that started it all.

When she meets fellow traveller Dean, she starts to understand their purpose for being there.

Walking the Heysen Trail, in South Australia, Bianca finds herself making the journey with her grandparents and her grandmother's sister. She knows how their trip ends; two of them perish falling from a cliff. The effects of this tragic event rippled through her grandmother and then onto Frances and Bianca. It's up to Bianca to delve further into her mind to try and remember enough to stop it.

A dark psychological thriller with a time travel twist, this story is set in rural Australia, where anything could happen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764283341
• ISBN13: 9781764283342
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Fairhope Investments Pty Ltd
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"