Climate fiction without apocalypse, centered around Washington, DC. Electrical engineering professor Jake Harper maintains his laser focus on the repair and re-engineering of the North American electric grids. Abbey London is the junior partner in an infectious disease practice, with principle interest and expertise. in novel vector-borne disorders. Together they operate Dragonfly Inn in nearby Virginia and care for their infant daughter with support from an au pair. Jake identifies evidence of a possible kinetic attack on the grid from photographs taken by his students, while Abbey discovers yet again an infection never before encountered in this hemisphere.