Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices, Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.

For eons sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.

Michael Beard, Nobel prize–winning physicist, heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An opportunity in New Mexico may mean a chance to save the world from environmental disaster.

The story of one family in a radically changing world, a place of loss and wonder where the extraordinary mingles with the everyday and new connections will be formed from the most unlikely beginnings.