SEAN ARCHER
STOLEN BY THE FLOOD
—A cli-fi mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end!
Selected for the 2021 PITCH WARS Showcase!
"The flood always begins with the surge—a wall of water twenty feet high, pouring down the eastern cliff, racing across the lakebed, obliterating the parched soil, and tossing raft houses into the air like deck splinters. As it passes, my heart goes still. I'm afraid the flood will take me. Like it took my mom."
In a future California scorched by climate change, Lula’s floating village endures a deadly flash flood every year. When the shackle that keeps her houseboat tethered is stolen moments before the surge, Lula dives in to replace it—only to be swept away. She survives, barely. But the missing shackle means someone tried to kill her. To find the culprit, she teams up with her rival to unearth devastating secrets about her family and the world outside their canyon—secrets that could destroy her village forever.