Children of the Batcave

<p><em>Children of the Batcave - Nick Razer</em></p><p>When the police smash through their front door before dawn thirteen-year-old Ruby Carter loses everything she's spent years trying to hold together. Torn from their parents and thrown into a foster home ruled by religious cruelty Ruby and her eight-year-old sister Lily quickly learn that survival has its own set of rules-and breaking them comes with a price.</p><p>But Ruby refuses to be broken.</p><p>When punishment turns to torment she makes a desperate choice: escape or die trying. Fleeing into the night the sisters are swallowed by London's underbelly-neon-lit alleys night buses Soho runaways goth clubs predators and the fractured remnants of the underground scene once known as the Batcave.</p><p>Every street hides a threat.<br>Every stranger could be salvation-or something far worse.<br>And every step forward risks tearing the sisters apart.</p><p>Raw relentless and charged with the energy of punk and goth subculture <strong>Children of the Batcave</strong> is a brutal beautiful story of survival sisterhood and the fight to stay human in a world determined to crush you.<br>Perfect for readers who crave emotional grit street-level realism and the dark social edge of <strong>Richard Allen</strong>.</p>