Watching July

Author Christine Hart gives us the gritty underside of rural youth culture in this edgy exploration of obsession and control in a troubled teen relationship.Uprooted from her Vancouver home, bereft of a mother who died in unnatural circumstances, sixteen-year-old July is stuck way out in the BC Interior and ready to completely hate her life. But before she knows it, she is experimenting with piercings and hair colours with her new best friend and dating one of the hottest guys at school in Salmon Arm. But then things turn decidedly weird. July's bizarre nightmare dreams cross the line into her waking world, and in the end, what she finally uncovers is the most chilling reality of all...