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. 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: Jade, the sympathetic girl she's met in an internet chat room, 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