Laura Bayston

A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen avoid becoming just another statistic?

Anne an office cleaner, finishes work late one evening to be pursued and harassed by a man at the bus stop.

How Madeleine McCann's mother Kate came under suspicion to face police interrogation.

A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child; born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite.

The beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhuman appetite, the seemingly harmless couple who are serial killers, and the home-alone woman who is petrified someone is out to kill her. These terrifying tales come together in one anthology.

As Cassie and Matthew come to the end of a divorce, a letter from their past selves surfaces suggesting guidance in the "event of separation". They agree to do the first thing on the list, only to find themselves drawn back together.

In a sleepy coastal town, an artist suffering from debilitating impostor syndrome struggles to deal with repressed memories that creep to the surface when haunted by a sinister, mermaid-like presence.

A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching classic western movies. When she finds a gun in her late father's loft she stands up to her tormentors, just like her gunslinging heroes.