Isla Maldita

In 2045, Puerto Rico has become a warning to the world. Decades after Hurricane María, corruption, climate upheaval, and economic exploitation have hollowed Puerto Rico from within. The global rich cosplay as citizens, living tax-free behind walls of privilege, while those left behind struggle in a system built to forget them. Born on the island and evacuated hours before the storm, Isabel Pérez returns to a homeland she barely remembers—and finds a society divided between opulence and abandonment. When a medical crisis strikes her family, Isabel is thrust into a hidden network where doctors work in secret, passports decide who lives... and justice has a price. As she descends into a world of political rot, black-market medicine, and environmental collapse, Isabel also discovers something unexpected: a small, defiant community fighting to build something better. Their courage forces her to confront a question she's avoided her entire life: What does it mean to truly come home? Isla Maldita is a haunting—and hopeful—fable about the consequences of human greed, the resilience of the forgotten, and the power of collective courage. For everyone who left home…and wonders what became of the people who stayed. **Because you can never go home again—**unless you choose to make it better.