Wake

It’s 2020 and California girl Camilla Brightly is an expat working for a PR firm that specializes in raising public awareness about their clients’ eco-friendly bouncy castles and almost-vegan honey. Their most recent project? Everyone on staff has to get their “domestic helpmates”—aka their dishwashers, toasters, and disco balls—networked via a new client’s “smart” home automation system.

But there are a few problems—a hacker intent on taking down one of her firm’s customers stumbles across a secret Camilla didn’t even know she was keeping, and her refrigerator is so smart it’s figured out how to…stalk her? On top of that, there’s an environmental crisis brewing in the depths of a glacier halfway across the world that’s a threat to everyone on the planet.

Now Camilla—with the help of an adorably nerdy co-worker and his polyamorous cousin—has to untangle herself from her less-than-harmonious home, foil a blackmailer, and face down an ecological disaster that might change life as she knows it forever. “Wake”—the prequel to “An Etiquette Guide to the End Times”—is a novel of climate change, unruly appliances, and finding a place to belong.