Afraid

London: Hodder Paperbacks. New. 2015. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. First printing of Hodder paperback edition, 2015. Nice tight, flat copy, no names or marks inside. Brand new unopened book. Cover design uncredited with photo courtesy of Alamy. ; 352 pages; 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. She doesn't know if her father is alive or dead; 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... .