Afraid

Author: Mandasue Heller

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When fifteen-year-old Skyes mother finally does something so shocking that it cant be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers and thats when the nightmare begins.She doesnt know if her father is alive or dead; the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying home thats more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl shes met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have a home life as unhappy as Skyes. And Jade offers her a safe place to stay . . .Alone in Manchester, nearly penniless, Skye is willing to trust Jade. Even when it isnt Jade who turns up at the rendezvous, but a grown-up man who says hes Jades brother . . . Afraid