THE COASTAL CORRECTION

Nobody is lying. Nobody is corrupt. Nineteen hundred families may still be left to the sea.

Something crossed the Atlantic between 2006 and 2008. Four years later, it was explained away. Now it is back — and Daniel Rusk has been hired to prove it is nothing.

He cannot. The signal is too large to dismiss as noise, too regular to ignore, and every expert who studies it gives it a different shape.

Elena Vale raised the warning once before. She was thanked and overruled. Now she is inside the review that will settle it, watching a scientifically defensible correction lower one official number by three tenths of a millimetre a year.

Under Dutch coastal law, that fraction decides everything. Above the threshold, nineteen hundred families are bought out and their coastline is defended. Below it, they are left in place — without protection and without insurance.

Daniel and Elena have until April to challenge a conclusion that may be technically right and catastrophically incomplete. Every person in the room will do the job properly. Together, their good decisions could erase a village's future.

The sea has not risen. The description of the sea has changed — and the description is what the law obeys.

A precise, high-stakes technothriller about data, duty, and the human cost hidden inside a decimal point.

The Coastal Correction is a standalone novel and Book One of the Ground Truth series.