Nestling

The author describes Nestling as the predatory practise of a paedophile, by which he infiltrates himself into the life of a single mother in order to get access to the child. Set in the Southern US, the story is focussed around the rape of Emma, a white juvenile by her "stepfather", while the blame is laid on a Negro boy called Jordan. The inbuilt racism of the old South, reinforced by the Klu-Klux-Klan, means the young Jordan is in for a sticky time, while the real culprit is protected by the good ol' boys of the town, who would prefer to lynch a young black than admit that one of there own could be a pervert