Publisher's Synopsis
Agnes can hear the shouting, smashing and crashing long before she gets near the two up two down building in the rough end of the city that is her home, her heart sinks, it will be carnage. At just twelve years old Agnes has learned that life isn't easy, her father is a violent drunk and her mother too afraid to leave. When her father unexpectedly dies, Agnes can only hope that life will become easier, however, shortly after her father's death, Agnes's mother moves a new boyfriend into their home! The boyfriend is worse than her father, Agnes can only dream of the day she can move out and leave the violence for good. The day of her sixteenth birthday is the best day of her life, the day she has been waiting on, the day when she can finally leave the house that holds so many painful memories, moving in with her best friend Billy two years her senior. Living with Billy however isn't what Agnes expected and the friendship quickly sours when Agnes finds herself unexpectedly pregnant with Billy's child! Sixteen, pregnant and alone, Agnes is terrified but determined to be a good mother, putting everything into making a life with Billy, at the start of the relationship life is good, Agnes is happy, she has a stable home and food on the table, everything she ever wanted. However as the years roll by, Billy becomes increasingly controlling and aggressive to the point where Agnes is little more than a servant. Determined not to expose her son to the violence she experienced as a child, she goes along with Billy's demands. That is until she finds herself pregnant for the second time, older and wiser she has to escape... but how? Billy controls all the money and her mother doesn't want anything to do with her. All Agnes wants is a life without violence... but how far will she go to get what she wants and keep her family safe?REVENGE and DESPERATION are a DEADLY COMBINATION...