The Sunshine Court

Jean Moreau has spent five years at the Nest holding to a single belief: he belongs to the Moriyamas, and that is the best he can hope for. Then he is taken from Edgar Allen University and sold to a more dangerous master, and for the first time in years he has to live outside the place that shaped him.

The Foxes describe his move to California as a fresh start. Jean sees a golden cage. He lands at USC, where Jeremy Knox captains the Trojans in his last year of play. Jeremy has missed out on the championship four years running, and he wants the trophy badly. Taking in the country's best defenseman looks like an easy decision, even though Jean is a Raven.

Jean is not the monster his reputation suggests. He is a man with no hope for a future and no wish for one. As the collapse of Evermore pulls his worst secrets into the open, Jeremy has to weigh what winning will cost, and who will pay it.

The book is a college sports story with a dark centre, told through a captain and a player who expects nothing for himself. The mood is heavy, built on captivity and the fallout of past abuse, with a team's ambition set against one man's survival.