Snared

On his fifteenth birthday, Lennox "Nox" Ritchie finds six ten-pound notes and a farewell letter taped to his bedroom door on the Dubhbrae estate. He is introduced to Cal, a gang leader, by his neighbor, Kenzie, who believes Nox is a computer genius. Nox is dragged into Cal's dark schemes, and he needs a miracle to survive. However, his mother's shadow appears, and he realizes that not everyone gets out of Dubhbrae Estate alive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 20 April 2023
Publisher: Fledgling Press

Lennox Nox Ritchie wakes up on the day before his fifteenth birthday to find six ten-pound notes and a farewell letter in an envelope taped to his bedroom door. Underage, under-financed, and alone on the notorious Dubhbrae estate, Nox's chances don't look good. His mother absconded on her debts, and it's not long before Nox finds himself trying to avoid the estate's loan sharks and drug dealers. His neighbor, and best friend, Kenzie, introduces him as a computer genius to Cal, her gang-leader boyfriend. Cal's big ambitions and unchecked ego make him dangerous. What he lacks in intelligence, Cal makes up for with violence. Against his will, Nox finds himself attempting to please Cal, who, in turn, keeps the loan sharks away. Dragged further and further into Cal's increasingly dark schemes, both on the Darknet and in the real world, Nox reaches out for help. But everybody he encounters has their own agendas. If he wants to survive the crazed, drug-fueled, and increasingly violent world of Cal and the other youths on the Dubhbrae estate, he's going to need less of a plan and more of a miracle. But just when he thinks he has a way out, the shadow of his mother turns up once again, in the most unexpected and unhelpful of ways. Nox has to face the realization that not everyone gets out of Dubhbrae Estate alive, and that might include him.

Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912280582