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The Deep Maps
Her perfect city was a lie. Its survival was a crime.
Maya Chen was an elite systems engineer, a true believer in the technologically perfect, floating city of Neo-Francisco. She saw the world as a series of elegant problems to be solved with data and code. But when a catastrophic failure shatters her sterile paradise, she is cast out, a refugee in the gritty, low-tech Great Lakes Commons—a community on the brink of collapse.
The Commons is dying. A mysterious, unrelenting drought is choking the life from the land, and Maya soon uncovers a horrifying the enemy isn’t a natural disaster. It’s a secret pipeline, an act of technological vampirism siphoning the Commons’ precious water back to her old home.
To save her new community, Maya must earn the trust of people who despise her and her "Enclave tricks," especially Kofi Asante, a fierce leader scarred by the same corporate greed she once represented. Pursued by the ruthless leader of Neo-Francisco, a man who will stop at nothing to secure his city’s future, Maya’s only hope lies in a ghost the legend of the Deep Maps, a lost knowledge that could lead to salvation… or ignite a devastating war over the last drops of water.
Maya Chen was an elite systems engineer, a true believer in the technologically perfect, floating city of Neo-Francisco. She saw the world as a series of elegant problems to be solved with data and code. But when a catastrophic failure shatters her sterile paradise, she is cast out, a refugee in the gritty, low-tech Great Lakes Commons—a community on the brink of collapse.
The Commons is dying. A mysterious, unrelenting drought is choking the life from the land, and Maya soon uncovers a horrifying the enemy isn’t a natural disaster. It’s a secret pipeline, an act of technological vampirism siphoning the Commons’ precious water back to her old home.
To save her new community, Maya must earn the trust of people who despise her and her "Enclave tricks," especially Kofi Asante, a fierce leader scarred by the same corporate greed she once represented. Pursued by the ruthless leader of Neo-Francisco, a man who will stop at nothing to secure his city’s future, Maya’s only hope lies in a ghost the legend of the Deep Maps, a lost knowledge that could lead to salvation… or ignite a devastating war over the last drops of water.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2025
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