Restoration

By: J.G. Follansbee

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What would you risk to let a river run free?

Seventeen-year-old Junie Wye never wanted to live in Utility, the Columbia River town her father calls home. She’s stuck there after moving from San Francisco, only to find the town locked in a bitter struggle over the fate of Utility Dam.

For the Bureau of Environmental Security, tearing down the dam is part of a bold river restoration effort to revive wild salmon and heal ecosystems shattered by climate change and environmental loss. For the locals, dam removal feels like sabotage, threatening farms, jobs, and a way of life.

As tensions rise, Junie forms an unlikely bond with Don Rast, a teen labeled “disidentified” under the town’s harsh rules. Together, they’re drawn into sabotage, secrets, and a fight that will decide not just the fate of a river, but what it means to belong.

With the urgency of an eco thriller and the intimacy of a small-town drama, Restoration is a powerful story of resilience, justice, and the fragile hope of starting over.

For readers of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, Richard Powers’ The Overstory, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future.

Restoration is the fourth and final novel of the series, Tales From a Warming Planet. The other standalone stories are The Mother Earth Insurgency, Carbon Run, and City of Ice and Dreams.

If you love eco-fiction, river restoration stories, and character-driven thrillers about confronting climate change, add Restoration to your library today.