Sarah Mullen is a beautiful child who, at seven years old, is put into care by her drug-addicted mother. Trying to live with the rejection is bad enough, but no one could have prepared her for the pain that was yet to come. Harry Shaw is the boy that everyone bullies, the kid whose own mother locked him in a cupboard so she wouldn't have to look at his face, and then left him there. When he meets Sarah for the first time, a friendship is instantly forged. And out of a desire to be loved an alliance is born. Then into their lives comes Vinnie Walker, a good-looking and calculating...

When Mary's mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend Lynne is older, more sophisticated. She has a taste for cocaine and isn't above walking the streets for extra cash to pay for it. Mary sticks to a straighter path, until the night Lynne brings Ali and Raiz back to their flat. The women don't know that their sexy new friends are small-time criminals, desperate for alibis for a drug-dealer's murder. All too soon, Mary is in more trouble than she can handle. Can her old friend Jane's risky scheme save Mary? Or has her fate been sealed by...

When four old school friends decide to make some easy money, they pick the wrong target. Robbing a small supermarket on a Manchester estate looks easybut with one of them wounded and a dead body on their hands, could things get worse? They couldthe supermarket is merely the front for something bigger, and the friends are small fish who have unwittingly plunged into a very big pond."

Manchester's Westy Lane is the hunting ground for a killer who leaves a tiny blue flower in the torn body of each victim after he kills her. Lisa Noone, twelve years old, lives too near the lane and her mother is a member of the oldest profession in the book. Their lives are far from perfect, but they will always have each other. Or will they?

Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he's less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show - actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals.
His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made.
But Larry doesn't know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men - and they want revenge.

Her schoolgirl daughter disappears, her little boy nearly dies in a fire - single mother Sue Day thinks things can't get worse. But Sue's troubles are just beginning. As neighbours, social services and police turn the spotlight on Sue and her ex-husband, someone is making sure that her luck stays bad.

Eddie Quinn is the hardest man on the the Grange Estate. Everyone knows that it's a bad idea to cross him, or his pit bull. But everyone also knows he's honest, as drug dealers go. So when he offers newcomer Joe Weeks a job, Joe accepts. But then Joe meets Katya, a prostitute who is desperate to escape from Eddie.

A gritty urban thriller about a woman who is in too deep and the only way out is to be tougher than her foes Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best he can't resist the girls, andhe can't hold down a job. But she doesn't know just how bad things are until his gambling habit brings the debt collector to her door, and hemakes it brutally clear how she can pay off Mark's debts.Amy's troubles are only beginning.Another womanwants Mark for herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect, and even her children. As the stakes rise, Amy will lose everything, unless she learns to be as...

Chantelle has everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat. A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle's prayers. But the...