In Firewalkers, the world is on the point of environmental collapse. The rich jostle for a place on the spaceships being constructed in orbit, but to get there they must travel to the parched equator where the space elevators are. When the power fails and things break, kids called Firewalkers get sent out into the killing heat to fix them.
Except this time Mao, Lupe and Hotep will find something far worse than a bad connection.