A new promo for Brax and Ricky’s Home and Away return has left fans wondering if their history is about to be rewritten.

Darryl “Brax” Braxton (Stephen Peacocke) and Ricky Sharpe (Bonnie Sveen) are set to return to Home and Away next month, as we head to Western Australia and find out where life has taken the pair since we last saw them together in 2016.

But a new promo and press release has left fans (and us) wondering whether their 2016 exit storyline – which saw Brax return to Summer Bay a free man after being cleared of murdering Dean Sanderson, before whisking Ricky away for a fresh start – is about to be rewritten.

The release reveals that the pair are now living in hiding, and suggests that they left “chaos” behind:

“A world away from his surfer days in Summer Bay, Brax is now working on a remote cattle station deep in the outback. Brax, Ricky and their son Casey (Austin Cutcliffe) have quietly built a whole new life in hiding, far-removed from the chaos they left behind.

But the peaceful existence they’ve managed to maintain is about to come to an abrupt end, when a crisis from the Bay finds its way to Brax’s doorstep.

While Ricky sees danger in jeopardising the trouble-free life they’ve worked so hard to protect, Brax finds himself torn between keeping his family safe and his loyalty to his River Boy brothers.

Will the call of the River Boys bring their picture-perfect outback life crashing down?

Once a River Boy, always a River Boy.”

Meanwhile, the new promo which you can watch below, sees text appear on the screen reading: ‘Far away from anyone, they’ve been hiding. Their perfect escape is about to end.”

However, unless Brax – or, we suppose, Ricky – has committed some further crimes since the pair left Summer Bay with baby Casey in 2016, we’re unsure why they would be in hiding.

While Brax did briefly go into hiding in 2015 after faking his own death, he returned to Summer Bay in 2016 as a free man.

Darryl “Brax” Braxton first arrived in Summer Bay in 2011 as the leader of the River Boys, a surfer gang from nearby Mangrove River, whose storylines would end up dominating Home and Away for many years.

In 2014, he was sentenced to fifteen years behind bars for accidentally killing Josh Barrett’s (Jackson Gallagher) father Johnny, which Ricky’s brother Adam (Martin Lynes) had supposedly covered up.

However, while Brax was inside, his half-brother Casey (Lincoln Younes) organised to meet with Adam to get his version of what happened the night Johnny died and asked Ricky to accompany him.

Reluctantly, she agreed, and they learnt that Johnny was still alive when Adam arrived to bury the body, and it was in fact Adam who had killed him.

Brax was released from prison, but it was his next stint behind bars which eventually led to his and Ricky’s departure from Summer Bay.

The following year, in 2015, he was sentenced to 20 years for killing Dean (Kevin Kiernan-Molloy), the then-boyfriend of Ash’s (George Mason) sister Billie (Tessa de Josselin).

Brax had travelled to the outback with his mate Ash (George Mason), who had just been released from prison, in an attempt to track down Ash’s missing sister.

Ultimately, Brax was charged with killing Billie’s ex, though the real killer was Sam Kennedy (Wade Briggs).

Ricky was pregnant when Brax was sent down, and she gave birth in the bay while Brax was sent to solitary confinement.

Thankfully, Brax was released back into general population in time to meet his son and agree to name him Casey.

It soon emerged that Brax had orchestrated a plan to break out of prison, and Ricky agreed to go on the run with him. Yet tragedy struck when Brax’s escort vehicle was run off the road, and Ricky learnt that he was missing, likely dead.

However, unbeknownst to Ricky, Ash was aware that Brax had survived and helped him go on the run.

Ricky struggled in the wake of Brax’s “death”, but eventually moved on with Nate Cooper (Kyle Pryor). The pair got engaged, but the moment was ruined the following year, when Ash revealed that Brax was still alive.

Desperate for answers, Ricky agreed to help find Brax, and he returned, asking her to go on the run with him once more.

With Casey ill, Ricky refused, but allowed him to see their child one final time. Nate and Ricky eventually wed and lived briefly in marital bliss until Brax returned once again.