He is waiting... He is watching... He will hunt her down.
Angel is on the run. Her mother is dead, her body buried in a shallow grave by her latest boyfriend, Scotty, a ruthless, illegal hunter who is prone to violence and who now wants Angel dead before she can talk to the police.
Angel has lived through more than a young girl should have but she's determined to stay alive.
But in the scorching heat of the open desert, where can she hide?
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Price's pacing is tight, aided by direct, clipped prose that underscores Scotty's brutality and Angel's fragile emotional state. Both the best and worst of humanity shine through in this gripping novel. - Publishers Weekly
...if suspense is your bag, this is a book to read. - VOYA
Top of the teenage selection must be the hard-hitting and mesmerising Desert Angel by US author Charlie Price (Corgi, paperback, £6.99), a brutal and heart-thumping tale of murder and abuse. This is young adult fiction of the grown-up kind, portraying life in all its stark reality. We see humans at their worst and best as we travel across the Californian desert on a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase. Fourteen-year-old Angel has had a tough start to life. Dragged around by her mother as she moves from one abusive relationship to the other, they have never stayed anywhere for very long. But the latest boyfriend Scotty is in a different league to the others and when Angel discovers her mother murdered one morning, she becomes his next target. Fleeing their trailer in the Californian desert, Angel embarks on a journey of survival. With no money, food or shelter and in harsh and unwelcoming surroundings, she must escape Scotty before he finds her and kills her too. Scotty has one very big and devastating advantage - he's an illegal hunter and Angel has become the prey. Her only chance of survival is to enlist the help of strangers but by doing so, she also brings danger on them. Angel can only see one way out...get Scottie before he gets her first. Price's fast-paced thrilling story paints a bleak and depressing picture of American 'trailer' life set against an unforgiving landscape. The relentlessness of an increasingly desperate Scotty contrasts with the emotional rollercoaster experienced by the teenage Angel as she finds friendship in the most unexpected places. Desert Angel is revealing, raw and shocking but it's also moving, uplifting and totally unmissable. - Blackpool Gazette
Raised in Colorado and Montana, Charlie is now settle in Northern California. In addition to writing and working with therapeutic groups, Charlie is a trainer, an executive coach, and a business consultant. He is an avid reader, a decent guitar player, a pretty fair free-throw shooter, and a hopelessly addicted fisherman. His previous novel, The Interrogation of Gabriel James, won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.
