Yet You Cry When It Hurts (Nothing is Promised 4)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>When the world is drowning diplomacy is more than handshakes and headlines.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements easing points of conflict and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares not the IEC's daily reports. On a calm day being a director at the International Energy Consortium requires fixing CarbonCon translators for Brazilian delegates. A thankless job but the world is still drowning in CO2-there's no choice but keep treading.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a bad day it's not just Brazilians acting up but Americans walking out and now the Governor of Southern California insisting on a clandestine meeting. Then a text from Matti her solid rock in the stormy seas: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guess what? We're getting married!</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Suddenly an earthquake is rolling through her personal life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She waited too long: to tell Matti how she feels to quit the unwinnable race to net zero to grab hold of things that make life worth living not just trying to stay afloat. When the governor reveals an impossible technology that could save the planet but it's in the hands of a madman it's a catastrophe. And almost enough to distract her from everything falling apart.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Work first</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> always. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And maybe that's been the problem all along.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Yet You Cry When It Hurts</em> is the 4th of four tightly-connected solarpunk novels </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in a near-future climate-fiction series. It's about our future how the forces of greed are ever-present how the fight for a just world never ends and how it's not strongmen who will save us but the bright cords of connection that hold the world together.</span></p>