Intruder

If you like Fiona Wood, Cath Crowley or Jaclyn Moriarty, you'll love Christine Bongers' gripping new coming of age story, Intruder. I don't walk past the house on our left. I don't speak to the evil witch who lives in it. I wish she was dead. Even deader than my mum. Which makes it hard . . . because she was the one who came running when I screamed. Kat Jones is woken at midnight by an intruder looming over her bed. She's saved by her hated neighbour Edwina u the woman Kat believes betrayed her dying mother. Kat's shift-worker dad, Jimmy, gives her an ultimatum. Either spend her nights with Edwina, or accept another intruder in her life u Hercules, the world's ugliest guard dog. It's a no-brainer, even for dog-phobic Kat. When she meets adorkable new boy Al at the dog park, Kat lets down her guard and family secrets come tumbling out. Then the prowler turns up the heat, and Kat is forced into an unlikely alliance with her nemesis u finally learning the explosive truth about their shared past.