Carrie and Tom are newly married and life looks promising, even though they belong to a religious organisation deemed 'extremist' by the right wing government of their day, a government in close alliance with the United States.
A sleepy Hampshire cathedral city, a remote cottage in central� Wales and a small town in the forests of east Texas - these are not locations where one might expect to find social unrest, political intrigue, or calculated injustice.
Living in a homeless encampment on the edge of Winchester, Giorgio has become separated from his parents. With great determination, he sets out to find then; unaware of the difficulties he will encounter searching for missing people in a neo-fascist state.
I was one of the good guys, or so they believed...
For years the world has been torn apart by pandemics and civil war, but at last the country is getting back to normal. Daisy lives in a care home and, with her friends, begins to explore the city beyond the Water Meadows where she has grown up.
For the first nine years of her life, she was held in modern day slavery. She saw violence, she knew cold and hunger, she experienced the death of those close to her. It was no life for a child. And now she is free.
On a stormy winter's night on a remote island in the wild North Atlantic, something draws Marie down to the beach, where she finds a small girl, barely alive. Who is she? How did she come to be there?
Marie and her family are safe inside their little home, but outside on the wild moor stands Jarvis, watching their bothy. He is bare foot and unkempt. What does he want of the people he is watching? Why is he there? Why is it that he seems so often to be close to places where there is trouble? Is Marie right to fear this strange man?