Seeing Green by Annabel Hertz

Seei It’s 1992 and Arcani Kirsch is on a mission to resuscitate the ever critical Earth Treaty, if she can only get to the next US President while balancing the high wire act of tenuous family relations, a love quadrangle, and a reappearing nemesis.

Compelled by the indigenous peoples at the Rio Earth Summit, Arcani Kirsch, a recent graduate with Jewish-Hopi roots, leaves her west coast cocoon to join EnvironMentality, an international association of green-minded businesses in Washington, DC, committed to getting the Earth Treaty ratified. The first step is ensuring next US President attends a Ministerial meeting in Paris and Arcani spearheads a campaign to do just that. If only an ultranationalist professor had not plagiarized her work! Then there’s the man who could derail with her lust, the one that wants her to come to Christ, and the one she’d written off as dead, as well as an albatross of a sister to cope with. The path to Paris is indeed muddy. But Arcani plows ahead, trying to keep her vision true, her methods kosher, and her doting Aunt proud. En route, she makes her mark in unexpected ways. Against a backdrop of world events highly relevant to today, Seeing Green explores the lighter side of dedicating oneself to changing a world that’s less than hospitable to change, while drawing on themes of identity and enlightenment.