Stars Above

Hope - a noun, a verb, and a name

Hope is very familiar with solitude. Her father is devoted to his work, trying to solve a problem even she believes impossible. Stories are Hope's constant companion. Stories and her next-door neighbor Alix, who is obsessed with the stars. It's staring at the night sky from his balcony that she recaptures a sense of wonder with the world.

That same source of wonder shatters everything she once held to be unchanging. Tomorrow is no longer guaranteed, and Hope ...