The Night Rajiv Montgomery Noah Saw the World Burn
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to know exactly when and how the world will end?
When Rajiv Montgomery Noah was 11 years old, his mother lay dying from industrial poison in Bhopal, India. She pressed a brass lion into his palm and told him he would be the solution to earth's destruction. That same night, he received a vision of fire that would consume the world.
Building an Ark
Forty years later, he's built Eden—a dome in the wilderness of northern Ontario designed to shelter two hundred souls. While some dismiss him as a madman, others see him as humanity's last hope. But who deserves to survive the fire? And what makes survival worthwhile when everything familiar has burned away?
WHEN THE TREES ALL BURNED follows Rajiv's impossible choice as he selects the two hundred who will survive within his walls. Through multiple perspectives—including a documentary filmmaker capturing humanity's final testimony, a comedian torn from her partner, and a pregnant artist escaping abuse—we explore the cost of being chosen, and the price of being left behind.
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In the tradition of Station Eleven and The Road, this story asks not just how we survive a dying world, but who we become in the surviving.
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Book 1 in The Path That Takes Us Home
Forty years ago, on the night his mother died, Rajiv Montgomery Noah received a vision of fire that would consume the world. While others dismissed the growing signs of climate collapse, he devoted his life to an improbable task: building a sanctuary in the wilderness of northern Ontario—a dome erected over an abandoned mine, designed to shelter two hundred souls within the ancient forest.
Now, as the world teeters on the edge of catastrophe, Rajiv's dome stands as both monument and shelter—a testament to hope, hubris, and the weight of choosing who survives. But neither the dome's reinforced walls nor Rajiv's careful calculations can prepare its inhabitants for the moral complexity of being the chosen few, or shield them from the haunting question: what makes survival worthwhile when everything familiar has burned away?
When The Trees All Burned, the first novel in The Path That Takes Us Home series, is a meditation on grief, purpose, and human resilience in the face of environmental collapse. In the tradition of Station Eleven and The Road, it asks not just how we might survive a dying world, but who we become in the surviving.
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PRESS RELEASE
WHEN THE TREES ALL BURNED releases April 1, 2025. Pre-order now to receive exclusive content.
