The Elysian Prophecy by Vivien Reis

The Elysian Prophecy by Vivien Reis

In the 1950s and '60s, a scheme was evolved to combine the solutions to two problems arising from the effects of World War I and concerning both many European governments and that of Australia. Europe had an embarrassing number of displaced, orphaned, and unwanted illegitimate children; Australia needed population.

Fifty years later, a pile of clothes is found under the pier at Hockley, a quiet town on England's south coast, and a woman's body is subsequently found on the beach at Fairlight Cove, exactly where a suicide's body would wash ashore. But all is not quite as it should be.