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Runaway Girl by Casey Watson

Read the latest shocking and moving true story from specialist foster carer Casey Watson.

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Runaway Girl touches on themes of foster care, trafficking and refugee children and is a highly topical and sensitive read.

This is the story of Adrianna – a 14-year-old girl that has turned herself into the social services, with a mysterious past she is unwilling to reveal. Adrianna is severely underweight, speaks no English and is completely alone. it is experienced foster carer Casey Watson who welcomes her into her home, providing her with a safe haven to build up her strength whilst her future home and family is decided upon. But it doesn’t take long for Casey’s foster carer antennae to begin twitching, and it becomes clear that Adrianna isn’t just suffering from a high temperature…
Adrianna is hiding a truly shocking secret, and needs Casey’s help more than she could ever have imagined.

Can Casey help Adrianna find the safe and happy ending she is so desperately in need of?

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