The Scent of Mint follows Malika, a ten-year-old girl of Algerian descent growing up in Septèmes-les-Vallons, a working-class town sandwiched between Marseille and the wealthier Pennes Mirabeau. Raised by her grandmother (her gidda) while her mother works long shifts at a psychiatric hospital, Malika moves through a near-future France that has already transitioned to a sustainable, equitable food system. Her school embodies this transformation: lunches are locally sourced, food waste is measured and discussed, and children tend garden plots as acts of ecological citizenship. The story is told in sensory layers, through the caramel smell of msemen, the earthy tang of brousse, and above all the cool perfume of mint, the herb at the heart of her grandmother's cooking, her stories, and her love. But the same world that has learned to care for its living environment cannot always protect the people within it, and Malika is about to learn something about the distance between a better future and a just one.

New Fires, Old Seeds is a climate elegy told in fragments of time. Meredith and her teenage daughter Annalise travel north on foot through the ruins of the Great Lakes region, now a brackish, salt-poisoned wasteland following decades of environmental collapse and a catastrophic event known only as The Burning. The story moves between past and present in non-linear jumps, campfire to campfire, memory to memory, tracing what the world was and what it has become. At its center is a family shaped by curiosity, love, and a shared instinct to keep asking questions even when the answers grow unbearable. As Meredith and Annalise push further north toward a place that may no longer exist, the journey becomes as much about what they are carrying as where they are going, and whether grief and hope can survive in the same hands.

Nuliajuk, Mother of the Sea is a retelling of the foundational Inuit myth of Sedna, the goddess of the Arctic ocean. When Nuliajuk refuses to marry any of the men who come calling and chooses her own path instead, she is met with betrayal: first by her father Anguta, then by a stranger who is not what he appears, and finally by the sea itself. What begins as a story of abandonment and survival becomes something far larger, a myth of transformation, consequence, and the ancient contract between humans and the natural world. Nuliajuk's story has always been told. But she is still watching, and the ocean has a long memory.

Kathe Kovak & The Pro Ks follows a young microbiologist stationed at the derelict Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, where she develops an unlikely solution to fossil fuel pollution: engineered prokaryotes, single-celled organisms spliced and combined to form a voracious, self-replicating microbe capable of consuming CO2 and reversing the chemical damage of industrial civilization. The Pro Ks work beyond anyone's expectations, and Kathe becomes a global icon. But watching the North Sea from her Northumberland home years later, she begins to understand something about the nature of the organisms she created, something she cannot quite name and cannot quite silence. The story asks what it truly means to save a planet, and whether the line between correction and consequence is as clear as we need it to be.

Aloi is a quiet, tender coming-of-age story set in a solarpunk future where cities have been reimagined as living ecosystems, with towers wrapped in vertical gardens, corridors lined with fig trees, and algae lanterns drifting like moons through communal atriums. In this world, the word aloi functions as both greeting and declaration of love, spoken freely to strangers and friends alike. The narrator, a student on the edge of choosing their path in ecological engineering, spends a late night with their best friend Melissi and a boy whose name they keep meaning to ask. They watch an old film, share tea, and wander between rooftop gardens and glass-walled apartments grown into the ruins of the old financial district. It is an ordinary night in an extraordinary world, and somehow that is more than enough to change everything.