Nicci Cloke

There was no sign of a struggle, they whisper to each other. She took her phone but left her laptop behind. Apparently, she'd met someone online, they write to each other in class, phones buzzing. She ran away. She was taken. The first time Aiden Kendrick hears about Lizzie Summersall's disappearance is when the police appear at his front door. He and Lizzie used to be friends; they aren't anymore. And when Aiden finds out that Lizzie had been talking to strangers on Facebook; that the police think she went to meet one of them, he begins to wonder how well he ever really knew her at Aiden doesn't know it yet, but with Lizzie's disappearance his life is about to take a twisted and desperate turn.

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Toxic

Southfield High School is typical for its too big, slightly grotty building, its good teachers, its bad, and its cliques. But depsite all of that, there's a particular group of friends who have known each other forever and know that they can rely on each other for anything. There's the twins: Aisha, rebellious, kind, and just a tiny bit worried about what the hell she's going to do once this year is over, and Vis, smart, quiet and observant. Then there's Remy, the loudmouth, and Gemma, who's more interested in college boys and getting into the crap club in town. And then there's Elise: the pretty one. But at the start of Year 11, when the group befriend the new boy, Elijah, things start to change. The group find themselves not as close as they used to be. Until one Tuesday, when the student body is locked inside the school building. And one of them has a gun. Close Your Eyesis the story of a school shooting which, through interviews, messages and debatable actions, asks the question: Who is truly responsible?

Close Your Eyes

You don't have to be missing to be lost. It's a hot summer in the city and the nation is gripped by the disappearance of London student Fate Jones. But 25-year-old Fitz has a different blonde girl on his mind: his beloved girlfriend Saffy is slipping slowly back into the grasp of an eating disorder.

Someday Find Me

For Jack Fin, the offer of a job on the Golden Gate Bridge is the chance of a lifetime. He's an iron-worker, and this iconic landmark has haunted his dreams since childhood. But the job comes with a second, unexpected role: the delicate psychological task of talking down the thirty people who attempt to leap from the bridge each year. And with each jumper, the things with which Jack maintains order - steel, structure, silence - are stripped away, and the life he has carefully constructed for himself begins to unravel. For Jack's British girlfriend, Elsa, Golden Gate is a chance to cement their whirlwind romance into something solid. Dropping everything to move with him to San Francisco, Elsa sets about making a home for them, hoping that she is finally leaving the troubled relationships of her early twenties behind her. But the bridge isn't going to let either of forget their pasts. And as three strangers step over the bridge's railing, the impact each of them will have on Jack and Elsa can never be undone.

Lay me down

What if the past won't let you go? London: 31st December, midnight. For Elsa and Jack, a stolen kiss becomes a shot at real happiness. Eight months later, they board a plane to begin a new life in San Francisco, where Jack has found his dream job working on the Golden Gate Bridge. But this is not your average boy-meets-girl love story, for Jack’s new job comes with an extraordinary obligation. No one told him about the Jumpers – the men and women who try to leap from the bridge to their deaths every year. One in particular begins to haunt Jack, bringing back memories he thought safely buried. As he becomes more and more preoccupied, and Elsa, alone in a new city, becomes increasingly isolated, both retreat into their pasts, back down the paths that led them to that New Year’s Eve. And the fragile love between them starts to unravel...

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A beautiful debut novel about young love and finding your way. You don't have to be missing to be lost! It's a hot summer in the city and the nation is gripped by the disappearance of London student Fate Jones. But 25-year-old Fitz has a different blonde girl on his mind: his beloved girlfriend Saffy is slipping slowly back into the grasp of an eating disorder. Struggling under the weight of her self-doubt and self-hatred, Saffy becomes increasingly lost and Fitz finds himself unable to help.

In this beautiful debut novel from stunning new voice Nicci Cloke, one girl goes missing, but another is entirely lost.

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