Read the first novel from author Patrick Maguire

Join Jessica Pearse, a young WindTech technician in a post-Net Zero Ireland where order is praised, sacrifice is expected, and the world has been remade in the name of equilibrium. She has built her life inside the system, trusting the people and institutions that shaped it, until a chain of unsettling events begins to crack that certainty apart. As the truth about family, power, and the cost of progress comes into view, Jessica is forced to confront the world she thought she understood — and the people who helped build it.

At the centre of that world stands Doctor Gregory Smith, one of the celebrated architects of the new order, a man whose public devotion to the greater good hides a far more difficult reality. As the European Climate Party tightens its grip and the boundaries between duty and cruelty grow thinner, Smith will do whatever it takes to protect the world he built, no matter what it costs him.

Can our heroine, Jessica, stand up against an unknown force? How will she navigate a world that was shaped before she was even born, with rules that she was not even aware of? What will Jessica do when she learns the truth? How will she handle it? Or can she?