Margit Heider, born in Stuttgart in 1963, is an author with a background in nutritional science and medicine. She lives with her husband at the foot of Hohenzollern Castle, surrounded by an English rose garden.
Influenced by life and work situations in Germany and the USA, she turned – after years of psychological prose – to the climate novel out of conviction. In her texts, she combines personal fates with the pressing issues of our time. Margit Heider also writes under the pseudonym Rose Otto.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because the group is needed to make our contribution as writers, to make people “feel” that we are hanging by a thread from the climate catastrophe.
Biochemist Nina Schaefer, 25, has a successful career, is in a relationship with a respected lawyer and is only one step away from a fulfilled life. But her life is in tatters when her company closes and her partner cheats on her. Nina needs a plan B.
She decides to do her doctorate and wants to recover from her disappointments in the quiet of the university library and regain her old strength. Then the sight of a mysterious, contradictory student jolts her out of her calm. She falls head over heels in love with him and has no idea what a high price she will have to pay for his closeness.
As Nina engages in her dangerous dance of seduction and rejection, she must learn to trust herself again and recognize the wolves in her life as such. Because she can decide against her great love. For an even greater love that lasts.