Sinbiosis

About the book

England, summer 1996. Football is coming home, Britpop fills the air, and Daniel is about to discover how quickly an ordinary life can disappear. Shy, clever and painfully cautious, Daniel takes a summer job at Pit Stop, a roadside restaurant where the coffee is stale, the uniforms are humiliating and the staff bungalow is falling apart. Then he meets Grace. Grace is fearless, restless and dangerously alive. She sees something in Daniel that nobody else has noticed—including Daniel himself. What begins as attraction soon becomes a private world of shared secrets, reckless choices and absolute loyalty. As England advances through Euro ’96, Daniel and Grace begin crossing lines neither of them imagined approaching. Every risk draws them closer. Every lie makes retreat more difficult. Before long, Daniel is no longer asking whether Grace is right or wrong. He is calculating how to protect them both. Because Grace does not simply offer him love. She offers escape: from caution, loneliness and the small future waiting for him. In return, Daniel gives her something just as powerful—a partner capable of turning impulse into a plan. Set against a soundtrack of nineties indie music, penalty shoot-outs and the relentless clatter of a roadside kitchen, Sinbiosis is a darkly funny psychological crime novel about desire, obsession and two people becoming inseparable. “I” becomes “we.” And once that happens, there may be no way back.