This stirring Solarpunk-Hopepunk conclusion to The Living World trilogy immerses the reader in a world in which climate and geological apocalypse looms, yet humanity is preoccupied with conflicting ideas and behavior. Synons in the Realm and on Earth have strayed from their mission to strengthen humanity’s diminishing link to Nature—a link that sustains the Realm.

That energy-mind-spirit based universe is fading from loss of the vital flow of positive energy from Earth. In North Carolina’s mountains, as the Tech Team prepares their site to train human telepaths like Jeff Hawke, called Uniques, Jeff’s abilities propel him beyond the others.

He is thrust into personal challenges and called upon to lead efforts against existential peril to Earth and beyond. Synons and Uniques question the possible role of Earth and The Living World in extraordinary experiences, while ordinary people follow rumors that extraterrestrials are behind recent unexplained events.

Factional conflict rises. The movement to save Earth struggles to gain momentum.

Can the future of Earth and the life she sustains be secured before it’s too late?Read Confluence after or before Books One and Two of The Living World Series: Passageways and Precarious. In this entry, Earth plays a prominent role, steering the narrative more toward fantasy while retaining the science fiction elements of the prior books.

Rejoin familiar characters and meet fascinating new ones as the apathy of some humans and Synons toward the consequences of their actions (and inactions) threaten the very planetary systems that sustain them. .