The New Coast: A Story from 2050

By James Harvest

They told him he was building the future. He discovered he was designing a tomb.

By 2050, the world we knew is a ghost. The coasts are drowned, the global economy is ash, and what remains of America is a fractured, desperate land. Leo Cruz is a climate refugee from a vanished Miami, an architect now fighting for daily bread in the overcrowded, resource-starved slums of the Great Lakes.

When the powerful Great Lakes Development Corporation offers him a chance to return to his life's work, it's a lifeline. He can leave the squalor behind, trade his muddy cube for a clean apartment, and use his skills to help rebuild. But inside the gleaming, fortified Green Zone, Leo uncovers a truth more terrifying than the chaos outside.

A manufactured plague is burning through the refugee camps. A weaponized drug is flooding the streets to fuel chaos. And the grand project he's designing-the magnificent citadel called Aegis-is not a shelter for humanity. It is a sealed ark for a handpicked elite, a throne for a new world order built on the graves of the old.

Caught between a ruthless corporation, a shadowy government agency, and the desperate masses fighting for their lives, Leo must make a choice: save his own future, or risk everything to sabotage the machine from within.

From the drowned streets of Miami to the violent, decaying heart of a new American frontier, THE NEW COAST is a breathtakingly immersive and terrifyingly plausible epic for our time. It's a story of one man's quest for redemption in a world that has sold its soul for survival, a heart-pounding thriller of corporate conspiracy, epidemic, and rebellion, and a profound meditation on what we owe to one another when the world ends.

This is not a story about the end of the world. It is the story of the brutal, bloody, and hopeful fight for what comes next.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FW5SYRPC
• ISBN13: 9798269785417
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"