Seed Vault Zero

Author : SIGNE THORLEY

The crops are dead. The last seeds are hidden in a mountain. Whoever gets there first will decide who eats.

Three years after a blight called the Pallor turned the world’s wheat, rice and barley to grey dust, the Arctic north survives on potatoes, fish and fear. In a freezing Norwegian port, Dr Imogen Hale lives under a name the whole world hates. She is the scientist who signed off the miracle wheat that failed, and they call her the Signature.

But Imogen knows a secret. Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in the Swedish mountains, her late mentor hid fourteen thousand samples of ancient seed. Some of that seed is older than the blight, and it may be the only grain on Earth the blight can’t touch. She has the key. She knows the combination. She just can’t get there alone.

Ylva Brekke is sixteen. She’s a smuggler with a sick little brother, a half-wild husky and a debt she can never repay. She’s also the only person desperate enough to guide a disgraced Englishwoman across eight hundred kilometres of frozen wilderness in the dead of the polar night.

Behind them comes the most powerful man in the north. He’s dying, he has helicopters and soldiers, and he is certain that whoever controls the vault controls the future.

Across Lapland’s border country, through herders’ camps and iron towns, over avalanche passes in killing cold, this unlikely pair must learn to trust each other before the ice, or the hunters, finish them both. When they finally reach the vault, they will have to decide what the seed is really for.

Seed Vault Zero is a gripping post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in a world after the crops have failed. It’s a story about courage, guilt and second chances, and about the friendship between two people with nothing left to lose. If you love The Road, Station Eleven or Into the Wild, you’ll love this.

Grab your copy today and begin the journey north.

📖 335 pages