"Engrossing." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A striking fiction debut." -- BookLife
"Undeniably timely, imaginative, and compelling." -- The Black List

A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an enigmatic underground activist in this captivating novel about love, loss, and resilience in times of social and ecological upheaval.

New York City in 2057 - a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but Brooklyn and Queens have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic, the communities still living there abandoned by the city. Living on different sides of the East River, Jake and Shavir are like Romeo and Juliet - only that Jake works for Homeland Security and Shavir knows she would be tried as an ecoterrorist should she ever get caught.

Jake works a brutal job at a Homeland agency called SAFE because he is brilliant at securing critical medical drugs in a broken world running out of everything. Surviving on pep pills and connected to work via a digital implant in his body, he is haunted by the tragic loss of his family and cannot afford to care for anyone, least of all a woman who is keeping secrets from him.

Shavir fights for the disenfranchised and discarded as a member of Roots, a community farm in Brooklyn whose members risk charges of ecoterrorism for their nocturnal animal liberation raids in the city's permanent evacuation zones. The last thing Shavir needs in her life is an overworked, traumatized Homeland guy, but when she takes Jake across the East River to the communities he was ordered to ignore, they both start to question the fragile truths they build their lives upon.

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• Publication Date: January 7, 2023
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• Print Length: 332 Pages
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