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A thrilling courtroom drama, perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal, He Said/She Said and Apple Tree Yard.The Victim: A sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by an alcoholic mother. Who accuses the boys of something unthinkable.The Defendants: Four handsome teenage boys from hardworking immigrant families. All with corroborating stories.Whose side would you take?Zara Kaleel, one of London’s brightest young legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a glittering career at the Bar. All before hanging up her barrister's wig to help the victims who needed her most. Victims like Jodie Wolfe.Jodie’s own best friend doesn’t even believe her claims that their classmates carried out such a crime. But Zara does. And Zara is determined to fight for her.Jodie and Zara become the centre of the most explosive criminal trial of the year, in which ugly divisions within British society are exposed. As everything around Zara begins to unravel she becomes even more determined to get Jodie the justice she’s looking for. But at what price?

A poignant novel of hope, acceptance, forgiveness and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love.The Blakelys are broken. The family shattered as matriarch Mary June refused to face the truth of her past and a legacy of tragedy. She and her husband Preston have paid the price for years of unspoken emotions – one son is lost forever, another, Morgan, has not been home in over a decade.But now as they could be forced to sell the one thing precious to their disintegrating family – Sweetgrass, home to the Blakely family for eight generations – unless they confront the secrets that kept them apart. Old hurts and one tragic event have driven the Blakelys to destruction and now fate could be dealing them the final blow. But could this loss be their redemption?‘I was hooked from chapter one… It’s a good old-fashioned love-story…’ Red magazine Reader Panel