Cathy is his mother. She's been broken by fear.

Chris Kane is fear - and they belong to him.

But one day they escape. They're looking for freedom, for the promised land where they can start really living, instead they find prejudice, and danger of another kind.

Alan Gibbons' latest novel positively crackles with tension as he writes about a mother and her son desperate to start a new life.

Malcolm Freeman Has appeared on television in Trail of Guilt, Holby City, Family Affairs, EastEnders, Prime Suspect and The Rag Nymph . His theatre work includes The Balcony, Country Dancing, Richard II , and Romeo and Juliet with the RSC, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Fitting for Ladies at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh,

Lucy Akhurst appeared in Eroica . Other television work includes Ultimate Force, Manchild and Clare in Wonderful You . She has also appeared on film in The Land Girls and Longitude .