The Sky Is On Fire

'If you're hearing this, it probably means I've been gone long enough for my sewing machine to collect some dust and enough time for Mal to start being early for things again... But there's more to this than you think. There's something I never told you and it's the reason why I'm, well, wherever I am.'

This was the first time Malika had heard Stella's voice since she had gone missing a couple months ago. But it wasn't the blonde hair girl that changed Malika's life forever four years ago. Instead it was from a tape recorder found in a box that was hidden in a floorboard of her room. Now that was odd, even for Stella, so that only confirmed Malika's suspicions there was more to this than everyone had originally believed. But now she just somehow had to put the clues together and prove it.

With an unlikely partner, they soon find themselves spending their summer trying to solve the mystery that left their little town of St Ryon's world upside down onto their head. Along the way, relationships bloom and fade, secrets get revealed and friendships get tried and tested. They learned to live and heal with the grief they are facing with the help of flashbacks and metaphors for a certain girl with more stories she than lead on.