The frantic turnings in the mind of a violence-haunted young girl.Marcy Madden had always wanted to be the center of attention. In her fantasies, she was the heroine-rescuing children from mad dogs or from drowning, devoting herself to a sick mother dying of a "rare, tropical disease." Then one day she discovered a plot to kidnap young Bonnie of the wealthy Lenning family.In an attempt to save the child, Marcy herself came face-to-face with stark terror ...

Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. She was a staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, and presented science programmes on BBC Radio. Her biography of Britain's only female Nobel-prizewinning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award, and was reissued by Bloomsbury Reader in 2014. She has written five further books on 20th and 21st century science and history.Visit www.georginaferry.com and find her on Twitter @ferrygeo