Too Hurt To Stay: The True Story Of A Troubled Boy's Desperate Search For A Loving Home [Paperback]

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.

Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. Its a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parents reaction  good riddance  speaks volumes. Caseys hackles are immediately up for this poor child.

Spencer is the middle child of four siblings. His parents claim all their other kids are normal and that Spencer was born vicious and evil. Casey and her family are disgusted  kids arent born evil, they get damaged. Although when vigilante neighbours start to take action and their landlord threatens eviction, Casey is stretched to the limits, trying desperately to hold on to this boy who causes so much pain and destruction.

Casey is determined to try and understand what Spencer is going through and help him find the loving home he is so desperately searching for. But its only when Spencers mother gets in touch with social services for the first time that gradually everything starts to make sense.