Length52m
About this audiobook
This is the first book of The Skybound Archipelago. Later volumes follow the people Sera meets after the weather learns her name: a lantern-scribe who will not falsify a chart, a chain-rigger who survived a slack collar, an Office sister who still believes the Coil can be petitioned in good faith, and a smuggler who jumped with the ship that remembered water.
The world started as a night market that wouldn't stay on the ground: barges, temple scraps, platforms hung on chains over a storm that never quite ends. Markets open after moonrise. Blue glass is how you find a path. Amber light means you can stop without being an idiot about it. Sera Venn—people call her the Moon-Koi Courier, which she didn't ask for—starts in the Lantern Bazaar and ends somewhere the maps still pretend is blank.
Books II through IV are coming. This one stops when a hanging city finds out it has a floor.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length52 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
17Chapter XVII
2Chapter I
18Chapter XVIII
3Chapter II
19Chapter XIX
4Chapter III
20Chapter XX
5Chapter IV
21Chapter XXI
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6Chapter VI
22Chapter XXII
7Chapter VII
23Chapter XXIII
8Chapter VIII
24Chapter XXIV
9Chapter IX
25Chapter XXV
10Chapter X
26Chapter XXVI
11Chapter XI
27Chapter XXVII
12Chapter XII
28Chapter XXVIII
13Chapter XIII
29Chapter XXX
14Chapter XIV
30Chapter XXXI
15Chapter XV
31Epilogue
16Chapter XVI
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