Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator or a harbinger of global disaster on a scale never seen before? Where does science end and faith begin? And what can love mean in interesting times? When a brilliant physicist enters the equation, the disruptive tension mountsand the stakes multiply. She is also insistent that her electroshock treatments enable her to foresee natural disastersa claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion.īut as Gabrielle delves further into Bethany's psyche, she begins to note alarming parallels between her patient's paranoid disaster fantasies and actual incidents of geological and meteorological upheavalcoincidences her professionalism tells her to ignore but that her heart cannot.

Raised in evangelistic hellfire, the teenager is violent, caustic, unruly, and cruelly intuitive. Among them: the teenage killer Bethany Krall.ĭespite two years of therapy, Bethany is in no way rehabilitated and remains militantly nonchalant about the bloody, brutal death she inflicted on her mother. Determined to make a fresh start, and shake off memories of her wrecked past, she leaves London for a temporary posting as an art therapist at Oxsmith Adolescent Secure Psychiatric Hospital, home to one hundred of the most dangerous children in the country. The twenty-first century has entered a new phase.īut Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief. All across the world, freak weather patternsand the life-shattering catastrophes they entailhave become the norm. It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights.

The Rapture by Liz Jensen