Nicola Stapleton

A feisty brother and sister duo roaming alone in the forest stumble upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a cackling witch with a wicked appetite.

When a teenager's Italian boarding school falls to the Germans during World War I, she escapes her captors and flees through the war-torn countryside.

Fresh, sweet and back on the street - that's Nicky, just out of jail and never planning on going back. But life has other plans for Nicky and from the first minute freedom he can't seem to help but make trouble for himself despite the incentives if his son and his dream girl.