JANE is a young woman grieving for her child, who is taken to a remote holiday cottage on the Northumberland coast. From the moment she arrives at the cottage with her much older and over-protective husband, Peter, Jane keeps catching glimpses of a little girl and hearing a child crying. Peter is convinced these are hallucinations, as Jane has been diagnosed with schizophrenia - a diagnosis she doesn't agree with. She sets out to discover who or what the child could be. A ghost? A real child? Or something else?Don't Leave, is a prize-winning psychological mystery thriller with a supernatural element. It won the 2020 Lindisfarne Prize for a debut thriller set in the North East. It's beautifully written and draws the reader in immediately. Pru has written an atmospheric, twisty and creepy tale and it is easy to see why it was chosen in 2020.