In City 42 Corporation look after you from cradle to grave. They protect you from the radiation outside the wall. They control the food, the water, the technology and most important of all, the continuation of the human race. Kira and Jed Jenkins were lucky enough to win Collection but when their friends start falling pregnant naturally, everything changes. How long has Corporation been lying to them? Is it really toxic outside the wall? As the group comes to terms with the changes in their lives they discover there is a much more powerful and ancient force at work, trying to bridge the gap between man and nature. The Gaia Effect is the first book in The Gaia Collection, Claire's hopeful dystopian trilogy set 200 years in the future. Much of the planet and the human race have been decimated during The Event, when the world went to war with high-energy radiation weapons. The remains of humanity were split into cities and isolated, for their own protection.