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Can one woman stop a chemical magnate from destroying life on Earth? While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At the same time, she receives a message from her father, presumed dead for fifteen years, warning her of imminent danger. Coincidence? Unlikely. Halfway around the world, agrochemical corporation ZedChem--led by billionaire Krakun Zed--tests its latest innovation, a product heralded as the solution to topsoil erosion. But the data reveals something else entirely. As Bayla sets out looking for answers, she learns more about her past-and her family's connections to a secret organization with ancient roots and to Zed himself. Will Bayla be able to stop the corporation from ruining global agriculture and devastating human existence forever? In this action-packed eco-thriller, the bonds of family--and the power to save Earth--are put to the test.

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Dheepa R. Maturi is a New York-born, Midwest-raised Indian-American writer who explores the intersection of identity, culture, and ecology. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and her essays and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. 108, her first novel, was her way of writing through ecological grief and toward hope, optimism, and a renewed connection with Earth and her communities. Dheepa lives with her family in the Indianapolis area. Based in Los Angeles, Sharmila Devar is a successful working actress with over twenty years of experience performing in TV, film, commercial, animation, and theater projects. She has a BA in economics from The University of Chicago where, thanks to a wide-ranging Common Core, she expanded her love of all things storytelling. She has performed at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre and is known for her recurring television roles on Scandal and in the Star Wars animated world. As a narrator, she has voiced a variety of single and multi-narrator audiobooks-ranging from POC/women's history to pre-school and middle-grade children's series, to self-help to young adult mystery to literary fiction, with a specialty in South Asian diaspora stories and romances. Her narration has been described as ""vivid and full of emotion,"" and she has been praised for her characterizations by Library Journal and InD'tale Magazine. A voracious reader, she counts her curiosity about complicated humans and her passion to bring all their varied stories to life as some of her best qualities.

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