From the author of 'doG Backwards' and 'Back to the Old House' A missing girl. A search across a flooded city. A resurgence of terror. And there's something in the water. Something pushing its way up to the surface. Young Billy finds it one day when he is rowing a borrowed boat home. It's dead, seemingly harmless, but what it represents isn't. Far from it. But that's not all. A crazy old hoarder. A curious old shop, frozen in time. A face at a window. And at the heart of it all, the missing girl...

'Mother Stands for Comfort' is Guy A Johnson's fifth novel - the much anticipated sequel to 'White Goods'. His darkest work to date, it picks up exactly where White Goods left off - the lid of a chest freezer is lifted and a petrified boy is pulled from its icy well. But the child won't talk - and his rescuer doesn't know who he is. He should take the boy to the police - but that's the one thing he can't do. Instead, in the dark of the night, he leaves him on a stranger's doorstep... Oliver has spent a lifetime torturing his mother with threats and foul behaviour. When he is lured into a...

A secret, underground railway. A city, hidden behind a wall. And a creature who walks out of the water... But that's not all. A pack of killer dogs, on the loose in a drowned city. A girl of indeterminate age, reading minds and dreaming the future. And boy on a quest who makes the most unlikely of bonds... In the third part of Guy A Johnson's dark, dystopian thriller, connections are made and secrets revealed that were better left undisclosed. And as the truth about the authorities is finally uncovered - the past and the present - plans are set in motion to right the wrongs. Plans to break...