Badlands opens with the horror of a man gradually
waking to find himself fully and sharply dressed on a hotel bed in the
Highlands with no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he is not alone,
a secondary horror which drives him to seek the help of a girl in a pub before
he takes off on a flight through the landscape in search of answers and an
identity.
The girl in
the pub, herself a stranger, is on a quest to unlock family secrets that are
rooted in Vienna. Two characters, an amnesiac man stumbling around the
countryside and a single-minded young woman forced by circumstance to reconnect
with her Austrian roots, carry the plot and their paths cross and divide as
they gradually work towards its eventual resolution.
Paperback / softback | Published October 2025
