Solstice

By P. J. Hoover

Subjects: Greek Goddesses, Identity, fiction, Persephone (Greek deity), Mothers and daughters, fiction, Love stories, Identity (Philosophical concept), Mother-daughter relationship, Identity, Gods and goddesses, Romance fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Love & Romance, Love, Global warming, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION, Children's fiction, Love, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, Gods, fiction, Identity (Psychology), Greek mythology, Greek Gods, JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance, Mothers and daughters

Description: Piper's world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy the Earth. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom. Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis. While gods battle for control of the Underworld, Piper's life spirals out of control as she struggles to find the answer to the secret that has been kept from her since birth—her very identity....