New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final book in the Orange County series, set in California in the middle of the 21st century, a world which is beginning to recover, the path to extinction has been avoided, but the battle to improve the earth will never end - especially in water-short California. Each book in this series presents a different view of the near future - this is the most optimistic and utopian. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-312-93050x.