TRANSFERENCE

This high-concept, edge-of-your-seat thriller blends the mind-bending twists of DARK MATTER with the emotional stakes of WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME.

Leo and Viv's Friday night starts out like any other. A bottle of wine, a takeaway from their favorite Chinese restaurant, a movie. But, when he wakes up, he finds himself in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar hotel room, in an unfamiliar city. Disoriented and terrified, he makes his way down to the hotel lobby, where the man on the front desk confirms what Leo has already begun to fear. Somehow - against all logic and reason - he's woken up on the other side of the world, in Australia. Viv wakes up to an empty bed and a ringing phone. At first, she's convinced that her husband is having some kind of mental breakdown, but when a woman from the US consulate confirms that she's sitting with Viv's husband in her office in Australia, Viv's certainty begins to crumble. Before Leo can make it onto the hastily booked plane, there's a flicker in the corner of his vision, and he wakes up in another bed, in another hotel room, in another country. And - he soon discovers - this is not happening to Leo alone. Someone with access to a groundbreaking technology and an axe to grind is beaming a group of individuals around the globe - and hunting them down, one by one. As Leo struggles to stay alive, back in London, Viv is struggling to understand what's happening to him - and why. As she digs deeper into Leo's past, she begins to realize that her sweet, mild-mannered husband has been keeping secrets from her. Dark secrets. Secrets that might be enough to make someone want to kill him. The more she learns about Leo, the less she seems to know - and the less certain she is that her husband is a man worth saving. Rowan Dale is the author of two critically-acclaimed psychological thrillers, one of which is currently under option with a major American production company. TRANSFERENCE represents an exciting new direction for their writing. Due to this it will be published under a pen name.