Summertime Blue

There was a level of activity in the Crown that had been missing for six months. For the upcoming festival, everytlng was awash with the pastel Summertime Blue. The colour of the sky on a sunny day, the colour of happiness within the Tree. The Light Half of the Year has come to Arbouron. This alternate Earth in a neighbouring reality in the multi-dimensional Cosmos, is built on a far greater scale. On Arbouron life is only possible inside gargantuan trees.The Inhabitants of the Canopy have returned from their Winter exile. The Canopy is once more a busy industrial complex. When her family, friends and colleagues in the Winter Squad head in the opposite direction, reporting back to their base, Nevamarsya faces a new challenge, life in the cosmopolitan Roots.Tree-people grow up quickly, going through adolescence in just sixteen week. Nevamarsya and the younsters attached to the Winter Squad for basic training, have seen more than some adults see in a lifetime. Will the years ahead of them as students be carefree, or have they forever lost their youth during the horrors of the viral invasion?To add to their woes, a ghost from the past threatens. The recently discovered body of Drwgdynant, a long dead loan shark, Mr.D., is discovered. Tabbernant, who helped ind Mr.Ds criminatl activities, is accused of his murder. Only the elusive Commander Gaemlovant knows the truth, but he vanished into thin air, escaping the clutches of the criminal Syndicates two decades earlier.