The Rewilding
A visionary, elegiac climate novel about ecological restoration, a buried lie, a rancher's reckoning, a drowning world, and the family the storm couldn't breakBy L. A. Kincaid
Length7h 43m
About this audiobook
0.48.
That was the real number.
Cora typed 0.73 and saved the lie.
Two forty-seven in the morning, July in the Bitterroot, the cicadas sawing through the dark, and the cursor blinks at her like it knows exactly what she's done.
A wolf pack needs a genetic viability score of 0.65 to survive three generations without collapse.
Hers doesn't have it.
So she rounded. She told herself it was a decimal point's drift, an honest mistake. She buried it deep.
Because the Right to Rewild Act has a sunset clause, and if anyone sees the truth, the wolves stay in their holding pens forever while the rustgut spreads through the dying pines and the soil-regeneration clock ticks toward zero.
She's already burned through two extensions. This is the last chance the valley gets.
Then the knock comes hard enough to rock the trailer on its hinges.
"One of your wolves killed a steer."
Cole O'Malley stands in his truck's headlights, a rancher's jaw set tight as cracked granite.
But Cora checked the GPS collars at midnight. All six wolves were inside the fence, every signal blinking green.
Something out there tore the throat out of two thousand pounds of prime Hereford.
And according to everything she knows, it wasn't supposed to be possible.
As a journalist starts pulling threads, a rancher offers a bargain, and the rot spreads faster than the new growth, Cora's small lie metastasizes into something that could sink the whole project, and her with it.
A rewilded valley fighting to come back to life. A half-drowned city downstream. A storm gathering at the edge of everything she's given her life to save.
To finally do right by the wilderness she loves, Cora has to decide whether the truth is worth losing everything, before the dam, the fire, and her own buried data come for them all.
The Rewilding is a visionary, elegiac climate novel about ecological restoration, a buried lie, a rancher's reckoning, a drowning world, and the family the storm couldn't break.
Perfect for readers who love literary cli-fi, near-future eco-thrillers, morally complex scientists, wilderness and wildlife stakes, and the sweep of The Overstory or the urgency of The Water Will Come. A standalone speculative novel.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Data I Buried
2Chapter 2 - The Bucket and the Flame
3Chapter 3 - Tracks in the Ash
4Chapter 4 - The Weight of a Name
5Chapter 5 - The Journalist’s Thread
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6Chapter 6 - What the Water Hides
7Chapter 7 - The Rancher’s Bargain
8Chapter 8 - The Bottle and the Truth
9Chapter 9 - The Spring Unspoken
10Chapter 10 - The Mountain He Chose
11Chapter 11 - The Dust Settles on a Pact
12Chapter 12 - The Split in the Bark
13Chapter 13 - The Dam at Midnight
14Chapter 14 - The Fire That Finds You
15Chapter 15 - The Witness and the Wolf
16Chapter 16 - The Cache of Lies
17Chapter 17 - The Rust on the Ridge
18Chapter 18 - The Lie I Carried
19Chapter 19 - The Green That Pushes Through
20Chapter 20 - The Account I Promised
21Chapter 21 - The Roots Beneath the Snow
22About the Author
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