Lies We Tell About the Stars

Celeste Muldoon is alone when the Big One finally hits San Francisco, because, for the first time ever, her best friend, Nicky, stood her up after school. The earthquake has a huge death toll, and Nicky and Celeste’s parents fear the worst, but Celeste doesn’t buy it. Nicky spent their senior year selling essays to rich kids and Celeste knows he had a plan to escape the disaster he’d created, but can’t convince anyone else that he could still be alive. Only Meo, a mysterious boy Nicky was mixed up with, seems to believe. Celeste and Meo embark on a quest across her broken city, all the way to Florida, where the mission to Mars is about to lift off.