Maelstrom

Following the catastrophe that closes Starfish, the genetically modified rifter Lenie Clarke washes ashore on the Pacific Northwest coast carrying an ancient deep-sea microorganism capable of ending DNA-based life on land. As governments, corporations and AI-managed systems scramble to contain the threat, Clarke's journey across a fracturing North America becomes a reckoning with corporate experimentation, ecological collapse, and her own capacity for vengeance.