num_pages: 384
description: Piper's world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles that 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 existeda sphere of gods and monstersand realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis. While gods battle for control of the Underworld Pipers life spirals out of control as she struggles to find the answer to the secret that has been kept from her since birth.An imaginative melding of mythology and dystopia Solstice is the first YA novel by talented newcomer P. J. Hoover.
language: English
title: Solstice
publisher: Tor Teen/Macmillan