By 2100, the sea has taken everything. The only thing left afloat is The Last Hope — a floating city built from the bones of a drowned world, where the upper decks feast on food no one else remembers the taste of, and the lower decks breathe air thick enough to choke on.
Martin has spent his whole life on Deck ?8, keeping his dying sister alive on rationed paste and stolen hope. When he's abruptly transferred topside to work the ship's gilded upper levels, he expects nothing from the world above except better wages and cleaner air.
He doesn't expect Helen.
The chief engineer's daughter has spent nine years haunted by one unanswered question: the strange, unfinished sentence her mother left behind before she died in an "accident" nobody ever investigated. When a chance collision throws her into Martin's path, the two of them uncover a secret sealed behind the most heavily guarded wall on the ship — a hidden vessel built for the few, and a countdown clock ticking down toward the many.
The company calls it H-Contingency.
Martin and Helen call it what it really is: a plan to decide, quietly and permanently, whose lives are worth the air they breathe.
With time running out, a resistance built on decades of buried grief, and a traitor closer than either of them wants to believe, Martin and Helen must choose between the safety of silence and the terrible cost of the truth — before the ship's next "adjustment" makes the choice for them.
Project Noah is a story about what survives when the world doesn't: love across an unbridgeable divide, the weight of an inherited injustice, and the impossible math of who gets to be saved.
Some built the ark. Others only bought their way aboard.
