Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret sheās too young to even understand.
When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl whoās just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses somethingās wrong. Something in Kieraās eyes alerts Casey that this is an āold head on young shouldersā, and with Kieraās constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing.
At first the answer seems simple enough; Kieraās parents arenāt together and they donāt get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as sheās so close to her dad. But as the weeks roll on, Casey begins to understand that thereās something much darker going on behind closed doors. And when she finally learns the truth, sheās terrified she wonāt be able to save Kiera from it.