Scorched Earth: The Library of Power

In a world where human connections are illegal, one unexpected girl changes everything, including what it means to be human – from the popular writer David Graham, who, thanks to long-standing hand and wrist injuries, wrote the entire book using voice dictation software.

With 90 per cent of the world's oceans lost to space, and daytime temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius, only one city remains fighting to keep humanity alive. Elizabetha. The people who live there work 24/7 and are banned from human connections. Should any citizen form one, they are sent on the Walk for the crime of being a feeler.

Air-conditioning worker Josephine Fairmount has a secret desire to be a feeler, something she suppresses from even herself. But then young Charlene enters her life, a uniquely odd and very young teenage girl.

Charlene is a feeler, and Josephine has to decide whether to expose her or risk exposing herself by saving her. This thrusts her into an epic life-and-death journey that will unravel many dark truths about just who Elizabethans really are, decide the fate of all humanity, and decide whether she can ever truly be what she has always wanted to be. A mother.