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Lexi is sent to spend time with her estranged mother, who's preoccupied with marrying her new man. While searching for her mother's missing dog, Lexi unwisely enters the gothic ruins of an abandoned asylum. She discovers a shocking, dangerous truth lurking there...

Award: author's first novel 'Beast' was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won the Manchester Book Award; her second novel 'Berserk' won the North-East Teenage Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year Award 2008.