Salt & Seeds by Alan Raw

Not every future has to be bleak.

The ice melted faster than anyone predicted. The sea took the towns. And in the poisoned soil it left behind, something is growing that shouldn't be.

Rowan Cullen watches the drowned coast from a clifftop station, keeping his distance — until a Dutch researcher and her extraordinary vessel pull him into a community that won't give up on the land, or on each other. What they uncover could reshape how a changed world adapts — if they can keep it in the hands of the people, not the powers circling it.