When The Trees All Burned

<p>Forty years ago on the night his mother died Rajiv Montgomery Noah received a vision of fire that would consume the world. While others dismissed the growing signs of climate collapse he devoted his life to an improbable task: building a sanctuary in the wilderness of northern Ontario-a dome erected over an abandoned mine designed to shelter two hundred souls within the ancient forest.</p><p></p><p>Now as the world teeters on the edge of catastrophe Rajiv's dome stands as both monument and shelter-a testament to hope hubris and the weight of choosing who survives. But neither the dome's reinforced walls nor Rajiv's careful calculations can prepare its inhabitants for the moral complexity of being the chosen few or shield them from the haunting question: what makes survival worthwhile when everything familiar has burned away?</p><p></p><p><em>When The Trees All Burned</em> the first novel in The Path That Takes Us Home series is a meditation on grief purpose and human resilience in the face of environmental collapse. In the tradition of <em>Station Eleven</em> and <em>The Road</em> it asks not just how we might survive a dying world but who we become in the surviving.</p>