nickvanleeuwen
The year is 2049 and the Sun threatens to destroy all life on the planet. In the wake of the apocalypse, some are killing each other over the tickets to the last space ark, while others have chosen to live out their final years in quiet rural towns. Still Pond is one of those peaceful places.
Seventeen-year-old Stella Hartman lives there with her big family and her brother, who she is secretly and madly in love with. But “mad” barely begins to describe her obsession. An ordinary, quiet girl who paints pictures and practices fencing in the daytime, Stella moonlights as a sinister and hateful being, plotting against her brother’s suitors. And now there is a new one, in the form of a redheaded and disgustingly cheerful photographer called Rhea.
And when a ticket is thrown into the equation, things get complicated...