Orenda Books

The Hope - E. Hardisty

In a ravaged future ruled by the descendants of those who caused the climate collapse, a teenager with a remarkable gift must flee for her life and fight to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy. The year is 2086. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime—descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster—sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart. But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorize entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, she’s forced to flee—armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind and a growing understanding of her family’s true past. Hunted and alone, she must fight to save her loved ones and bring hope to a broken world with the help of some unlikely allies Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall,The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardisty’s critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy—a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there’s still time?

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