The Earth beneath their feet feels eggshell thin, and it's cracking open... In the isolated Australian town of Dyall's Ford, blinding sky flares known as Flashings erase memories and fracture time. The ground splits without warning, swallowing the living - and something rises from the cracks to stalk those left behind. As terror spreads, brutal vigilantes seize the town. When defiant Jessie Saker pulls a shattered John Bowman from the chaos and hides him beyond Dyall's Ford, they become targets. Hunted through a landscape where time and matter are collapsing, they must decide whether to flee... or stand and fight as reality itself unravels around them. Because the cracks are spreading. The past is vanishing. And survival demands they stop running. The Shattering is the opening novel in The Land Inside Time, a dark fantasy series spanning Earth and its twin world, Animarl. When the two worlds bleed into one another, Dyall's Ford burns, and something ancient stirs beneath the ruins.