Length2h 35m
About this audiobook
While four souls fight the storm, Havenswell is fighting its own battle.
The bells toll day after day. The sickness spreads despite every precaution. Those who remain watch the empty horizon, carrying words they never found the courage to speak, waiting for a shape that does not appear. In the healing ward, knowledge slips away with every laboured breath.
And then, through the grey morning light, something. A shape. Wrong somehow, listing, battered, but unmistakably a sail.
The sea gives back what it chooses.
But salvation is not simply the arrival of medicine. It is the synthesis of hope from raw ingredients. It is the conversations finally spoken after years of silence. It is the discovery that survival means nothing without connection, that the future must be built with hands reaching toward each other across the water.
The Return concludes the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length2 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One What They Carried
7Chapter Seven The Return
2Chapter Two The Toll
8Chapter Eight The Gift
3Chapter Three The Gathering
9Chapter Nine What Grows
4Chapter Four What She Knows
10The Gathering
5Chapter Five The Mending
11Epilogue The Horizon
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6Chapter Six What He Finds
12About the Author
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