Book Review: ‘Halcyon: A Thriller’ By Rio Youers

Imagine a place where it is pure bliss. No technology, cell phones or internet. Living off the land and working with your fellow people. A paradise even. Welcome to Halcyon. An island off of Lake Ontario. You basically forget everything you ever did and start over again. Too good to be true. Well it might just be. The island is run by Valerie aka Mother Moon. On the surface she seems like a love able woman who wants it simple. But we come to learn she has dark secrets and not everything on this island is not what it seems.

Enter Martin Lovegrove who has a wife and two daughters he is devoted to. His daughter Edith has an issue. She has psychic abilities and sees things before they happen. She’s able to project into her sister Shirley’s mind as a safe place. After his wife is killed in a school shooting he’s told about Halcyon and decides that he and his girls might be better off there for a while to come to terms with everything that has happened.

Once he gets there he starts to see things may not be what they appear. He’s finds suspicious things involving Mother Moon and is able to get her to let him go back to the mainland to tie up things (there is a strict rule if you leave you can never come back or talk about the island). When he leaves the girls stay and he starts digging around and finds out that Mother Moon isn’t really who she seems to be. He is desperate to get back to the island and his girls. He has no idea that things have gone haywire there and he may be to late to save his family.

A page-turning story of loss, betrayal, hopes of a better place to live and twists and turns up until the climatic ending. Author Rio Youers has written a captivating story that you will find hard to put down until you read the whole thing.

You can pick it up in stores now.