"Have you ever wanted something so badly you can hardly breathe, but once you get it you know you can't keep it, so you wish you never knew it existed in the first place?"

Nic Wootten is suffocating in this place where the line between hero and zero is blurred beyond recognition – this place where it's a daily battle to keep himself and his drug-addicted mother alive.

He wants out. He wants a taste of the good life.

Something else he wants is the name of the one man he's spent years searching for. His biological father. That one name can change everything for Nic, and now he finally has it.

So, what's stopping him?

The body at his feet and the blood on his hands.

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