For Kerza Freiborne, the war began with fire and ended in ice. But Ally bombs and a march through frozen fields did not come first: the war had a precursor that brought it to her doorstep in the shape of hunched shoulders, dirt-smudged cheeks and a gold star sewn to the breast of a sweater. A fugitive Jew in the hear...
What once use to be the witty, unpredictable and unstoppable Valerie Ramirez had become the saddened self-destruct. Her high school days had become a deadpanned living hell, and her peers as of society treated her as an unwanted nobody. She was lost, wanting to know how to find herself. All she wanted was an escape...