the girl who painted walls blue!

From the red-brick streets of her childhood estate to the quiet walls of the children's home where safety was just a word, Hayley has spent her whole life learning how to survive. At sixteen, she finally holds the keys to her very own flat high up in Gleadless Valley soft magnolia everywhere, deep calm blue on the walls, exactly the colours she chose to feel steady. It was meant to be her fresh start: freedom, space, and proof she could stand alone. But the road never stays straight. Debt closes in, and every person she ever trusted vanishes or is taken away, Rebecca lost forever, Leo gone too soon, her mother still just a ghost she searches for in every crowd. When Troy arrives from Nottingham older, sure of himself, promising food, gold, and a roof that never leaks, Hayley steps into a bargain she thinks she cannot refuse. What begins as shelter slowly becomes a cage, built of quiet words and constant reminders that she owes him everything. Raw, tender, and unflinchingly honest! The story is of a girl who learned early that safety isn't always freedom... and that sometimes you have to carry your whole world close to your chest while you wait for the right moment to begin again. For now, this is where we stay. But the story is far from over...

Pages: 160, Paperback, Independently published