America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of
people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to
simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and
south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders
against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop,
an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new
client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole
mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in
order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single,
united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand
woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything
and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together--or
have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?