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When fifteen-year-old Skye s mother finally does something so shocking that it can t be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers – and that s when the nightmare begins.

No one will let her talk to her father; the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying home that s more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl she s met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have a home life as unhappy as Skye s. And Jade offers her a safe place to stay…

Alone in Manchester, nearly penniless, Skye is willing to trust Jade. Even when it isn t Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says he s Jade s brother…