In a near-future ravaged by climate change, a man tasked with keeping New York City alive falls for a woman determined to protect its most vulnerable creatures. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, privileged Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving while the eastern boroughs have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic. But no one is safe in a world of cascading disasters causing a global scarcity of medical drugs, food, and other essentials for survival. Shavir Tayard, barista and community farmer by day, rescuer of animals by night, sustains an injury in the coastal evacuation zone of Brooklyn that changes her relationship with the cute regular at her coffee shop—and her life. Jake Alvaro is a Homeland Security agent tasked with securing medical drugs for New York in a world running out of everything. His view of whose lives must be saved and who can be sacrificed is challenged when Shavir takes him across the East River to the people he was told to ignore. Soon, he begins to question the fragile truths he built his life upon. Set in a divided near-future New York, Fragile tells a story of commitment and connection against all odds.