Salvage

Aurealis Award nominee 2012.

Seeking to salvage their foundering marriage, Melanie and Richard retreat to an isolated beach house on a remote Queensland island.

Intrigued by a chance encounter with a stranger, Melanie begins to drift away from her husband and towards Helena, only to discover that Helena has her own demons, ageless and steeped in blood.

As Richard’s world and Helena’s collide, Melanie must choose which future she wants, before the dark tide pulls her under... forever.

"Jason Nahrung is a major talent, and his short novel Salvage brilliantly fuses the sensitivities of mainstream fiction with the sense-of-wonder spinal chill of the genre." — Jack Dann

"Salvage injects new blood into the vampire genre and invites readers to enter a world stranger, darker and infinitely more seductive than the one we know." — Angela Slatter

"Jason Nahrung has written a horror story that is as much about what it is to be human as it is to deliver the scares — and it succeeds brilliantly." — Robert Shearman