Lily Miyashiro lives much as any twenty-nine-year-old in 2050's America. Her job is busy, resettling climate refugees from the coastal cities. Then she gets a call. She has family she never knew about. And they want something from her she doesn't want to give. Lily is one of the young; reliant on artificial intelligence and facing an uncertain future. David Moreland was a bigwig during the world's golden age. He is old and almost forgotten...until he is drawn into the realm of the Climate Court. Now a whole generation seeks to condemn him. When Lily meets David, she is forced to confront events from her past that she would prefer to forget. Feeling trapped, she hires a young lawyer. Is it to defend David, or to deny the past? In a world that seems comfortably like the present, hints of sinister differences begin to emerge, and the stakes are raised beyond David's fate.