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Community organizer and gardener Iona’s comrade has gone missing in a post-America landscape of salvaged solar panels and urban gardens.

In the near future, national governments and major multinational corporations have merged into a world government known as the Meld Authority to combat imminent disaster due to climate change. To manage noncompliant citizens and the lifestyle expectations caused by generations of unsustainable capitalism, an airborne pacifying drug experience called the Meld compels cooperation with the global program of reduction in the global carbon footprint. Those who submit are given all they need: subsistence, rations, group housing, free transit, leisure, access to Internet, freedom of expression, meaningful work.

But those on the outskirts, like Iona, remain wary of what they perceive as forced mind control. While seeking the truth behind her friend’s disappearance, she becomes embroiled in gang warfare, political insurgency, and other community struggles that fill the void left by corporations and the state. Meanwhile, the Meld is expanding into Iona’s neighborhood, driven by gamified logic to save humankind from its self-destructive potential. Resistance to the Meld has already begun, and Iona must stand in support of her friends, her values and her community, no matter what consequences befall her along the way.