The Perigee Drought

THE PERIGEE DROUGHT

The night the comet passed close enough to touch, it didn't hit the Earth. It reached down and took the water instead.

Nineteen minutes. That's how long it takes for a comet no one thought to fear to tear eleven percent of the planet's surface water into the sky — and how long it takes for the world everyone knew to end.

Dr. Mara Voss discovered the comet seventeen years ago, as a graduate student, and named it with a colleague she'll spend the rest of her life mourning. Now she's the only person on Earth who can calculate when it's coming back — and whether humanity has any chance of stopping it before it finishes the job.

Two thousand miles away, Coast Guard veteran Daniel Reyes has one job: get his daughter Susanna off a coastline that no longer has an ocean, before the town they love tears itself apart over what little water is left.

What follows is eleven years, four months of rationing and rebuilding, of settlements rising out of fairgrounds and diplomacy out of desperation — and a single, irreversible mission to strike back at the thing in the dark before it returns to finish what it started.

The Perigee Drought is a story about what people build when the water runs out — and what it costs to watch the sky for the rest of your life, so no one is ever caught unwatching again.

📖 148 pages