The girl he's loved more than any other has died, leaving him with a confession he never got to deliver. But, thanks to a deal struck with a Pedlar in a graveyard, Colt now has three days to spend with Aquarius Joans, the girl who stole his heart.

Parents don't exactly realise the damage and impact that the occasional slight remarks they make can have. On the rare occasions that they realise they shouldn't have said something, they make the huge mistake of just assuming that the young ones won't remember. That the words they uttered are meaningless and won't leave an impression on their children. Sometimes, all it takes to fix it is an apology.

With summer just around the corner, Coraline's prepared for another busy tourist season at her family's hotel. What she's not expecting, however, is England's hottest up-and-coming music sensation, Leon McCarthy, showing up at the check-in desk.

"sun-bleached suburbia, clean like the teeth of the teens once were." a poetry collection on suburban corruption