5/13/2023 0 Comments Valentina by Kevin McDermott![]() ![]() When their journey is intercepted by a military group, Val and Pippa are kidnapped and must try to escape before Val’s identity is discovered. ![]() Read more of the refugees and their families. The experience is shocking for Valentina as she witnesses the lives. Desperate to see her older brother, a soldier with the pro-refugee group Solidarity, Valentina plans an undercover trip to the Amber Zone with her friends Pippa and Damien and government official Joshua. Refugees from all over the world have fled fire and floods to escape to Ireland, but the original Tribe despise their presence, and violence rages throughout the country. She is the president's daughter, sheltered, spoilt and arrogant. But Valentina lives high in the privileged Citadel, at the heart of the heavily protected Green Zone. At the age of 14, she has never been outside of the green zone and knows little of the Badlands or the world beyond. The temperate zones are still habitable and one small island is teeming with climate refugees. Life in the Badlands is dangerous, disease-ridden, violent and controlled by gangsters and terrorists. Valentina, the President’s daughter, leads a privileged life in the Citadel. But when she makes a secret trip to the Badlands, with her friends she must face up to the realities of life on an island teeming with climate refugees and to the responsibilities of her position. ![]() Valentina lives in the privileged Citadel, at the heart of the protected Green Zone. ![]()
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