The Refuge
Take three girls: in Carlisle, Mandy Thompson is fifteen and pregnant and alone. Desperate, she takes a bus to London.
In Newcastle, Tia Sharif is sixteen and about to be sent "home" by her strict Bangladeshi parents to meet the husband they have arranged for her to marry. But she doesn't want to go. She takes a ride with a friend who is heading for London.
And in Oxfordshire, Keryn Hughes is also sixteen and terrified. Keryn has learned something horrific, something that makes it impossible for her to stay at home. In fear for her life, she sets off to hitch for London.
All three girls are shortly to meet in the refuge, a secure place where troubled youngsters are guaranteed protection and privacy. Owned by a mysterious doctor, run by Mark, a young man with demons of his own never far from the surface of his life, the refuge exists precariously on the brink of publicity. Against all the odds, Mark and the doctor struggle to protect their charges from their very real fears. But for all of them, the nightmare is only just about to begin...
Chaz Brenchley
Chaz Brenchley (born 1959) is a British writer of novels and short stories, associated with the genres of horror, crime and fantasy.
Winner of the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award in 1998 for Light Errant (and not, as often stated, the Outremer series), he has also published three books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres. His time as Crimewriter-in-Residence at the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project in Sunderland resulted in the collection Blood Waters. Brenchley has also been writer in residence at the University of Northumbria.
Chaz Brenchley also writes under the pseudonyms of Daniel Fox and Ben Macallan.