Blame the parents. It’s a common reaction to any failure in children’s behaviour or to their safety, and yet so many issues – from education and economic to social care and mental health – arise from the failure of the state to provide adequate support to children and their families.This edited collection brings together academics, practitioners and activists along with contributions from parents and young people who have experienced the trauma of being caught up in the process of ...

Mirror, mirror, take my soul...Marjeta was never supposed to be Duke Calvai’s wife. But the sudden death of her sister changed everything, and Marjeta was married off in her stead to seal the Duke’s alliance with her father.Ill-prepared for the dangers of the Calvai court or her new role as stepmother to the duke’s precious daughter, Marjeta finds herself in a hostile environment with a husband who preferred his dead first wife, a child too suspicious to love her, and no true...

Meet Detective Constable Mairead Maclean. A fresh force in crime fictionInexperienced but driven, brilliant yet scarred, Mairead brings the grit of Lisbeth Salander and the resolve of Clarice Starling to a chilling new case. The Long Isle begins with a body on a remote beach in the Hebrides and spirals into a web of secrets in a community that guards its own. Forced to return to the islands she once fled, Mairead must face a killer and the past she thought she’d outrun.This ...

The Long Summer Vacation is about a family who sets out on a vacation, but find themselves on an adventure of a lifetime. They take a boat to a little Island in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, but shortly after casting off, a storm catches them and flips the boat over, throwing the family from the boat. The storm not only hits the town they departed from but it caused the Manzor family to land in the hospital with near-death issues. During their hospital stay, they are all severely injur...