The island has teeth.
You just don’t see them until it’s too late.
Something ancient lives in the water surrounding this island. It has been here longer than the people who named it. Longer than the stories they tell about it. It comes from the deep dark — the kind of dark that light has never touched — and when it finds you, it doesn’t let go.
Heidi Bennett thought she was starting over.
She was.
Just not the way she planned.
The Tiki Tumble is the story of a woman who ran from everything that broke her and found something on a beautiful, rotting, rum-soaked island that broke her completely differently. It is bloody and tender and explicit and terrifying and occasionally very funny because that is what survival looks like when you’re doing it honestly.
There is desire here.
There is horror.
There is grief that hits like a physical wound and intimacy that costs more than anyone budgeted for.
There are things that come from the ocean that you will not see coming.
And there is a woman who, when the darkness finally finds her, decides she has survived enough to know exactly what to do with it.
Read it with the lights on.
Or don’t.
The Tiki Tumble by Dani Fadd
18+ — You’ve been warned.
