Coronation Street airs worrying times ahead for Hope Stape and her family next week on the ITV soap.
The youngster has been caught up in drama surrounding her late father John Stape yet again, with a book about the killer set to be published.
After it emerges that Hope was unintentionally involved in the sharing of information about her dad and his crimes to a journalist, her mum Fiz Brown and stepfather Tyrone Dobbs are mortified by a discovery.
They learn the journalist plans to go ahead with publishing the book, despite their fears of how it will impact Hope.
They have been consulting solicitor Adam Barlow over the matter, but next week Adam realises it isn't his area.
Adam tells Fiz and Tyrone about a a libel barrister who is happy to take on the case, but there’s no guarantee they’ll win and their costs alone will be £100k.
Fiz and Tyrone realise they cannot afford this and have no way of stopping the book from being published.
Hope rails at Fiz and Tyrone for failing to protect her, and after an incident with Tyrone and Nick the youngster decides she wants to live with her uncle Chesney.
Her parents are desperate to protect her, and Tyrone sets out to find every book and buy them so that no one else can.
He also takes the large cutout of John and hides it in the garden so that no one, including Hope, sees it.
But this all backfires when Hope comes face-to-face with her killer dad, when she finds the cutout in the shed.
Fiz hides the John Stape books from Hope when she suddenly comes home, while Tyrone distracts her in the hallway.
But it's not enough, and as Hope kicks open the door of the outhouse she comes across all the books and the cutout - but how will she react?
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Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV and ITV Hub.
