Du stirbst in meinem Herzen nicht

Der Unfalltod ihres Vaters lässt der 18-jährigen Mara keine Ruhe. Was ist bei dem Busunglück vor einem Jahr wirklich passiert? In dem kleinen Dorf, in dem Mara noch nie heimisch war, wird sie mehr und mehr zur Außenseiterin. Nur ihre beste Freundin Sanna hält immer zu ihr. Bis der geheimnisvolle Jonah neu in die Klasse kommt. Mara fühlt sich zu ihm hingezogen. Doch auch Sanna verliebt sich in Jonah, weshalb Mara versucht, ihre eigenen Gefühle zu unterdrücken. Während Jonah Mara bei ihren Nachforschungen zum Tod ihres Vaters hilft, kommen sich die beiden langsam näher. Dabei stoßen sie auf Geheimnisse, die unter der scheinbar glücklichen Oberfläche der Dorfgemeinschaft lauern – und Mara selbst gerät mehr und mehr in Gefahr ...

18-year-old Mara can get no peace after her father dies accidentally. What really happened in the bus accident a year ago? Mara has never felt at home in her small village; she becomes more and more of an outsider. Only her best friend Sanna always stands by her, that is until the mysterious Jonah joins the class. Mara feels drawn to him, but Sanna also falls in love with Jonah, which has Mara trying to suppress her own feelings. As Jonah helps Mara investigate her father's death, the two slowly grow closer and they come across secrets lurking beneath the seemingly happy front of the village community, all while Mara herself gets more and more into danger ...

256 Seiten / Pages
Erscheinungsdatum / Release Date: 2015

Simone Veenstra was born in Hesse, in Hanau am Main to be precise, and still returns from time to time. She grew up in Franconian Switzerland, studied literature, film, theater, and history in Erlangen, Groningen (the Netherlands) and Berlin. After an interim stay in New York, she worked in the Netherlands as an assistant director and dramaturg, and in Germany as a  TV news and cultural journalist. Her first first permanent job was as senior online entertainment editor for the publishing house Egmont-Ehapa.

Since 2003 she has written as a freelance journalist and writer/conceptualizer for prose, TV / film, radio plays, games and interactive media. She also advises production companies, cultural institutes, publishers, and agencies on film, trans/multimedia, and prose projects. Since 2010 she has run the independent and small publishing house “Das wilde Dutzend” (“The Wild Dozen”), together with Dorothea Martin. Publications of “Das wilde Dutzend” creatively fill a niche for art, culture, literary history by providing published books with supplemental transmedia. She has also developed the interactive support project "Kreativ-Lab", which encourages and supports children and young people to work out their own stories, and to realize them in a multimedia format.