The poisoned seas rose long ago, and all the knowledge once so confidently stored in the clouds has been lost. Tailor has grown up in a coastal village perched above a drowned industrial city. But in a polluted world of radical beliefs, new science, and cultural piracy, it is vulnerable to treasure hunters on the trail of the past.

When the murder of a book thief attracts the attention of powerful outside forces, the whole community is put at risk. But who knows what? And who will they tell?

Steeped in the northern landscape, Higher Ground weaves its vision of a post-climate change future into a literary mystery.

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