Stanton and Green Valley couldn’t be more different. By public vote, Stanton has banned all cell phones, the internet, and most forms of technology and surveillance. Stanton grudgingly allows nearby Green Valley to inhabit their concrete dome where citizens live full time in virtual reality. The two communities must interact when a young girl goes missing from Green Valley. Her aunt Lucie, a Stanton resident with misgivings, must delve into the dark reaches of each territory to save her last family member.

Green Valley is Louis Greenberg is a post-cyber noir novel.