City of All Seasons

Jamie tinkers away in an empty patent office, hiding from the winter that has kept Fairharbour motionless for years. He’s shocked when his latest creation shows glimpses of green amid the snow, prompting him to investigate anomalies that sprout the hope his family is alive somewhere warm instead of lost under the frigid rubble. In the overgrown summer version of Fairharbour, Jamie’s cousin Esther receives his creation and leaves one of her own. This growing exchange of strange inventions is a lexicon of memories that only family members could translate, leading both cousins to believe in the other’s survival. Beyond the cruel weather, each version of the city is afflicted with the philosophies of their hidden leaders. Seemingly nonsensical policies destroy the Fairharbours, one window and one door at a time. Esther and Jamie must puzzle out the true nature of their homes—and why everything seems to connect to their grandmother’s murder.