Groomed: Danger lies closer than you think. Casey Watson

      

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      This book is a work of non-fiction based on the author’s experiences. In order to protect privacy, names, identifying characteristics, dialogue and details have been changed or reconstructed.

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      First published by HarperElement 2017

      FIRST EDITION

      © Casey Watson 2017

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      Source ISBN: 9780008127600

      Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008217617

      Version: 2017-08-24

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Acknowledgements

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Epilogue

       Topics for Reading Group Discussion

       Casey Watson

       Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

       About the Publisher

       Dedication

      This book is dedicated to the army of passionate foster carers out there, each doing their bit to ensure that our children are kept as safe as possible in such a changing and often scary world. As technology is reinvented and becomes ever more complicated for those of us who were not brought up amid such advances, we can only try to keep up, in the hope that we continue to learn alongside our young people.

       Acknowledgements

      I remain endlessly grateful to my team at HarperCollins for their continuing support, and I’m especially excited to see the return of my editor, the