The Fading Evergreen

The Fading Evergreen is set in a world of human immortality, engineered by the brilliant geneticist, Dr Blake. With her discovery, she successfully eradicates all disability, disease and even death itself. Dr Blake promises to deliver Heaven on Earth. We join the eternal paradise a millennium later and things aren't as heavenly as they once seemed. Kailan Saor is a mortal boy of fourteen and a student of the Haven. It is here that children are created, moulded into citizens worthy of immortality and the outer world. Despite the incessant propaganda, he is suspicious of the supposed perfection hidden beyond the towering walls...Following his hunch, Kailan places his faith in a rebel group hoping to restore life's natural end. He is placed under the rueful protection of John Lyons, an immortal man tormented by the inevitable end of his marriage and the certainty of endless time in which to wallow. In this world devoid of consequence, Kailan struggles to find his identity amidst the chaos of a probable war, and the battle raging between his head and his heart...