I wanted to include a brief note to explain a few things within this book. The book is set in Staffordshire; however, I have used some literary licence by making up names of towns/places to fit with the story.
Having been a senior/probation officer for eighteen years, I left in 2017. There are some references to the changes that were implemented in 2015, but I went all nostalgic and some of the work/terms refer to a time when Probation was all one service. It made things a lot less complicated. Any errors to police procedure/probation are purely my own or intentional to move the story forward.
Finally, I have extensive knowledge and experience of domestic abuse – both personally and from a professional point of view. I tried to portray this as realistically as possible, but everyone’s experience will be different.