It's 2048. In the future world of this climate fiction novel, power hangs by a thread between the many and the crumbling empire of the Diez Familias. Elder Marina flees the climate-ravaged City to track her disappeared husband in the Caribbean island of Karaya, half colony, half liberated zone. Emboldened by her teenage son, a leader in a seaside encampment of rebels, Marina joins the winner-take-all worldwide battle driving the Empire into retreat. Living precariously outdoors on a beach in a sanctuary for climate and political refugees, she treads the edge between annihilation and survival. Her struggle to free her husband and protect her son, added to the struggles of myriad others, helps empower the rising worldwide battle against the empire, but will Marina uncover the power within herself to rescue her family and take back the Earth?

Maritza Arrastía's five-decade writing life spans journalism, poetry, drama, and fiction-including the novel Exile. She's committed to activist, liberatory writing and to building collective vehicles for publishing. Find her work at maritzaarrastia.net