The Last Weather Station
Elliot Mercer · Science fiction · Sci-fi & fantasy
About this book
Mara Venn came home to empty her father's weather station, sign the transfer papers, and leave Morrow Reach before anyone asked her to explain the old storm again. Then the harbor rose above the number on the regional screen. The Grey House gauge is old. The storm model is not a forecast for every street. The new sea wall protects the center of town, but the narrow inlet has changed since the survey behind its warning system. Mara has a little time to prove that the water is behaving differently, and no clean way to ask a town to trust her. Twelve years earlier, she issued an all-clear before her younger brother died on the quay. As wind and tide close the roads, the question is no longer which instrument is right. It is what people should do with a warning that cannot promise them safety, only a chance to leave before the next rise.