Secret Heart Macmillan|Tor Even as he lets Jackie

Even as he lets Jackie force him out one night for a poker game at a stranger's house

is assigned a new partner and a secondhand case

Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices

about an old unsolved murder

twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesnt come home

Secret Heart Macmillan|Tor Even as he lets JackieJoe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend, Stanny, insists that Joe must toughen up, become a survivor and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle Joff will do the trick. Into Joe's unhappy world comes Hackenschmidt's Circus, and with it the strangely familiar