Tanya Allan
Growing up is never easy, particularly for a young person whose parents have divorced. For young Callum, the experience is exasperated by several factors, the least of which is his certain knowledge that fate had played a trick on him and made his body a different gender to his mind.,Add to this the awful responsibility of discovering his father is not only having an affair with his secretary, but is planning to run away with her to South America, leaving him and his American born mother in the lurch with just debts to content with. He also discovers that his father has been fiddling the books at the London bank in which he works, to the tune of many millions of pounds.,What does one do?,Callum did what he thought was best, he reported his findings to the Serious Fraud Office. Now he has to live with the consequences.,Callum might be screwed up, but he's not stupid, so he retains two insignificant pieces of evidence that later might just lead to a fortune. For his father not only stole from the bank, he stole from some very dangerous people, who could never report the theft, for obvious reasons, as terrorism and drug dealing are rarely seen as legitimate means of doing business.,The problem is, those men have one avenue left to follow - Callum and his mother, for both his father and his secretary are now in prison.,Life just keeps on getting more complicated.
Queen of Hearts