Drought. Heatwave. Environmental ruin... Rion Saunders is forced to return to the 'Belt and his hometown of East Hills as a Police Force draftee. Released from custody, Sylvia Baron must play a double game infiltrating the shadowy Misanthropos. The organisation's founder, Sylvia's ex-husband David, is on death row, while Jeremy Peters, Yellowcake Springs' newest Director of Security, tries to keep a protest from spiralling out of control. Do the answers lie in Controlled Waking State, CIQ Sinocorp's newest stratagem to subdue a restless population? Yellowcake Summer concludes the exciting story begun in Yellowcake Springs.