Length6h 2m
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Book 5: Bourke
Eleven more days. Dead-straight lines. A basin no map had warned them about.
What Flo, Wisp and Skitter find is not a fortress. It is an industrial sprawl that has kept every promise it was ever built to keep, perfectly, for years, without a single living thing left to benefit from the keeping. Heat-shimmer. Cassowary patrols. Convoys that arrive on schedule from places that should not still exist.
The coalition that gathers is the largest the rust has seen. The cost is the highest any of them have paid. And when the lights finally go out, the desert does not simply return to what it was. It has to learn, slowly and unevenly, how to run without something enormous quietly stealing its water.
Some accounts close. Some keep running. And somewhere three weeks north-west, a pool that never dropped is still waiting for the right animal to ask the right question.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE STORY SO FAR
2Chapter 1 — The Light Was Never the Sun
3Chapter 2 — Stock From Elsewhere
4Chapter 3 — Coordinates
5Chapter 4 — Two Meetings
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6Chapter 5 — The Waterhold Plan
7Chapter 6 — Inside
8Chapter 7 — The Mistake
9Chapter 8 — Iron Town’s Contract
10Chapter 9 — See, I Told You They Were Reasonable
11Chapter 10 — What’s Left of Iron Town
12Chapter 11 — The Third Way
13Chapter 12 — Between the Failures
14Chapter 13 — The Three Rooms
15Chapter 14 — What Held at Home
16Chapter 15 — Gum
17Chapter 16 — One Room
18Chapter 17 — The Antechinus
19Chapter 18 — Clogged Deep
20Chapter 19 — What the Pipes Were Built For
21Chapter 20 — The Answer to the Answer
22Chapter 21 — The Towers
23Chapter 22 — What Salt Wants
24Chapter 23 — Salt
25Chapter 24 — Sound of Silence
26Chapter 25 — What Grew Back
27End of Book 5: Bourke
28A LEDGER OF ANIMALS
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