This book is the second in the series but at no stage did I feel I had missed anything by not reading the first book as the story was very self contained. Olivia and her little sister Jacq are living with their grandmother on the Queensland Gold Coast while their mother and father are in Kathmandu sorting out Olivia's mother's mid-life crisis. Olivia has just turned down working as a PI for a man called Rosco who she though she connected with but who has "ghosted" all her texts and messages. Instead, she has just started Law at Uni and is finding it a struggle. She gets a phone call from an old school friend Abbey's mother to say that Abbey has disappeared while night surfing at Byron Bay. Olivia feels guilty because the last time she saw Abbey they fought, so she decides to investigate on the side, even though Rosco has been called in officially to do so. She reinvents herself as Nansea the tanned hippy surfer and runs into all sorts of trouble as she delves into the seedy side of Byron - surfer rage, drugs, cults and big business building resorts at the cost of the rainforest. Lots of suspects, bit of romance, bit of drug use ( accidental on her part - she eats cookies with hallucinogen in them) and some violence with her musing about sex and buying condoms making this a book for older readers