The Hunted by Alex Shearer
Published by Macmillan

The Hunted is set in a future world where medical ‘advances’ have enabled people to live much longer.  There is however, a terrible price to pay – most adults are infertile. Natural born children are extremely rare: they are bought and sold, but scariest of all, abducted by the Kiddernappers.

Deet wins Tarrin in a card game and rents him out to childless couples who want to experience life as parents.  Tarrin doesn’t know if his parents are alive or dead but lives in the hope that he will find them.  But time is running out. Deet is delighted with the steady income that Tarrin provides and would hate to see it end.  That’s why he wants Tarrin to have the ‘Peter Pan’ – an operation that would make him grow old inside the body of a boy.  Can Tarrin escape the ghastly ‘PP’ or will he be forced to give in to Deet’s greedy desires?

A sci-fi thriller that explores the dark side of eternal youth.