Return to Paradise

Author(s): Tasmina Perry

Location(s): Koh Phi Phi

Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction

Era(s): 2000 / contemporary

Some memories last a lifetime. Some secrets should stay buried.

In 2000, four backpackers – Beth, Claire, Jez, and Max – meet on the sun-drenched shores of Phayom Beach, Thailand. Their gap year travels doing the banana pancake trail are supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime, but when fellow traveller Wylie is found dead on the shore, their dream turns into a nightmare. His death is ruled an accident but the four of them know better.

Twenty-five years later, Max is a wildly successful tech entrepreneur, and his girlfriend Paige is planning an unforgettable 50th birthday celebration – a trip to one of Thailand’s most luxurious resorts – Phayom Eco Lodge – for Max’s closest friends.
But Max isn’t excited about the trip and Paige can’t understand why – after all, wasn’t his trip to Thailand some of the happiest times of his life?
When Beth, Claire and Jez receive their invitations to the party, they all have their reasons for going back – and their reservations…

They all carry their own ghosts from their gap year travels, and when they return to Phayom, old footprints are uncovered in the sand and one thing becomes clear: the past is never truly washed away.

Life at the beach was meant to be an unforgettable idyll, but this time, paradise might just be their undoing.

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