Paradise Burns

When Rita and Liton meet at a party, they quickly form a bond that will indelibly shape their lives. Theirs is not an easy world: most wildlife is extinct and the earth is tormented by drought and floods; the last vestiges of natural life are kept under lock and key in a mysterious greenhouse a day's travel away. Like the other young men of the Service, Liton is frequently enlisted to put out the seemingly never-ending fires that tear through the valley; Rita lives perched on a hill in the