In 2050, a legal vow of care replaces traditional marriage. “For better, for worse. In sickness and in health.” It’s how families survive in a world shaken by climate-driven plagues.
Lucía Ramirez, a power engineer, lost her own family to one of those pandemics. Since then, she’s poured herself into tending solar lilies and kelp farms on a Power Island. It’s meaningful work—but painfully lonely. When the housing AI matches her with a new family, Lucía wants it to work more than anything.
Her new housemates come with quirks. A fierce Senegalese retraining expert. A former Pandemic Corps cook who now runs a comfort-food channel. And a writer who claims life itself is just one big story. Refugees in every sense—emotional, literal, and personal. They offer her the one thing she needs most: a place to belong.
But then something strange happens. A sudden power outage. A missing turtle-bot. And a creeping feeling that someone doesn’t want her asking questions. Lucía follows the clues, but each step she takes, someone else has already been there—covering their tracks.
Lucía isn’t a detective. She just wants a home. But what she uncovers could take it all away.
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