The Tenacious Bloom

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Agent Aliyah Aurea with the FBI Division of Environmental Crimes is tenacious. That character trait might be why she gets attacked in a North Dakota prairie pothole by a woman with a sharpened gardening trowel and held hostage in the back of an SUV deep in the Appalachian Mountains. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aliyah is determined to build her career solving environmental crimes at the expense of her love life and often her personal safety. When a menacing poem lands in her inbox posted by an unknown group of climate activists Aliyah is plunged into an undercover mission in the dead of a Wisconsin winter. In this and other cases she must navigate awkward alliances with the likes of a geologist rabbi an imposing small town public works director and a dyslexic botanist with a vendetta. Along the way Aliyah draws inspiration from the family stories of her great grandmother Packy a root doctor in a Black rural Georgia community before the family migrated north in the 1950s. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Aliyah uncovers a stealth organization intent on thwarting environmental progress stretching back to the presidency of Andrew Jackson she makes a life-altering decision. Will it cost her life? </span></p>