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Port Finch Mysteries: North Queensland Is About to Get Weird

Port Finch Mysteries: North Queensland Is About to Get Weird

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN13: 9798289426864
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2025
Pages: 422
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In the sleepy town of Port Finch, the laws of physics are packing up and going on holiday.

The air in Port Finch, North Queensland, has always tasted of salt and secrets. For eleven-year-old Lily, a brilliant young inventor, it's home. For Leo, a local kid who knows every rock and mangrove root, it's his playground. For Sawyer, Lily's cool, artistic cousin, it's just another quiet town. But when a skipping stone loops backwards in mid-air and reflections in the creek begin to warp and lie, they realise their town is hiding a profound and dangerous weirdness.

Drawn together by a shared sense of curiosity and escalating dread, the trio discovers that these aren't isolated incidents. A strange hum emanates from the earth, objects swap places with impossible precision, and time itself begins to stutter and fray at the edges. Their investigation uncovers a hidden history: the legacy of the eccentric Finch siblings, Alistair the scientist and Elara the artist, who decades ago built a mysterious machine in the heart of the town.

Now, as the anomalies grow from quirky to catastrophic, threatening to unmake reality itself, Lily, Leo, and Sawyer must decipher the clues left behind. They must learn to read a language written in seafoam, listen to songs sung by trees, and understand a machine powered by the very fabric of time. To save their town, they'll have to combine Lily's science, Sawyer's art, and Leo's deep knowledge of the land, forging a found family bond strong enough to face down a creeping cosmic horror.

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