Respect Av Mandasue Heller

<p><b><font>''One of the bad girls of gritty crime'' <i>Daily Mirror </i></b><b></font></b><br><br><b>Chantelle has everything going against her. </b><br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br><b>A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle''s prayers. But the violence is about to come home to her - with a vengeance.</b> <b>And the only person who''s offering any help seems to be just as bad as the people she''s trying to escape from . . .</b><br><br><b><font> ''A cracking read that will chill you to the bone'' <i>Sun </i>on<i> Two-Faced</i></b><b></font></b><br><br><b><font>''Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel'' Martina Cole on <i>Forget-Me-Not</i></b><b></font></b></p>