If someone hurts your sister and youre any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brothers been accused of a terrible crime and youre the main witness, then you banish all doubt and defend him. Isnt that what families do? When Mikeys sister claims a boy assaulted her at a party, his world of work and girls begins to fall apart. When Ellies brother is charged w If someone hurts your sister and youre any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brothers been accused of a terrible crime and youre the main witness, then you banish all doubt and defend him. Isnt that what families do? When Mikeys sister claims a boy assaulted her at a party, his world of work and girls begins to fall apart. When Ellies brother is charged with the crime, but says he didnt do it, her world of revision, exams and fitting in at a new school begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. Brave and unflinching, this is a novel of extraordinary skillfulness and almost unbearable tension. Its a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all its a book about love - for ones family and for another.