Ruin, Book Two: The City of Life

Hidden deep in the rugged fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains, lies the valley of Beori, a gentle Utopian society for whom violence is anathema. Established in the 21st Century by progressive idealists bent on preserving civilization in the event of a planetary catastrophe, Beori exists now, one thousand years after a nuclear holocaust, as mankind's best hope for an enlightened future.

OURN ROHLVAAG, President of the ecologically self-sufficient nation, is facing the gravest crisis of her political career when her nieces and nephews return home with DEKE WOLFSON, a stranger from Outside who has saved their lives, and who, she suspects, will change her people and world forever.