Background: Global warming took its toll around 4000 AD as the whole southern hemisphere dried up and certain populations wiped out from heatstroke. Survivors fled to the north and as scientists collaborated with governments to improve climate conditions certain individuals suffered mutations from the drastic changes. Fast forward a couple thousand years to late summer of 5000, when long shadows creep into the sunlight falling over Garden Island, Alaska, and the life of a traumatized teenage girl starts to unravel around her. The voices in her head are not those of her conscious and as they become louder than her own she breaks down. As the hectic world around her keeps spinning she reevaluates her home, her friends, and herself. As other perspectives join in the chaos, the pieces of her life start to fit back together to create an image she never saw before. | Beautiful Demon by Mariya Nikitina, Paperback | Indigo Chapters