Veil

When her mother dies in a heat wave that kills twenty million, Zia Le n abandons a promising diplomatic career to lead humanitarian aid missions to regions ravaged by drought, wildfires, and sea level rise.

What Zia doesn't know is that clandestine forces are gathering around her in pursuit of a colossal secret: someone has hijacked the climate, and the future of human civilization is at stake.

To avoid a world war that appears more inevitable every day, Zia must build a coalition of the powerless and attempt the impossible. But success depends on facing the grief that has come to define her life, and rediscovering friendship, family, and what it means to be true to yourself while everything falls apart.

About the Author
Peper, Eliot: - Eliot Peper is the author of nine novels that explore the intersection of technology and culture. He is the co-creator of the award-winning True Blue website and the critically acclaimed game, Machine Learning President. His writing has appeared in the Verge, Tor.com, Harvard Business Review, VICE, OneZero, TechCrunch, GEN, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he has given talks at Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Comic Con, Niantic, Future in Review, Qualcomm, SXSW, and the Conference on World Affairs. He lives in Oakland, CA.