The Gospel according to Cane- Courttia Newland

Beverley Cottrell had a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. It was all stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son, Malakay, was kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay was never found. Beverley’s marriage dissolved, and her husband left England for the United States with a new wife.

Moving from the leafy suburbs to the inner city to reside in a west London housing project, Beverley cocooned herself in grief, growing more isolated with each passing year. After two decades she has given up any hope of finding closure, and teaches children at the local community center, bright kids thrown on society’s scrap heap. Then a young man starts appearing wherever she goes. Beverley is convinced that he’s stalking her. One dark evening he gets past her security door and calls through her letterbox. He tells her not to be scared. He says that he is Malakay, her son . . .