Length2h 27m
About this audiobook
Fifty years after the seas rose, the Estuary Collective has built a life worth living. Floating platforms connected by rope bridges. Vertical gardens and kelp forests. A community sustained by the tides and by each other.
The illness spreads faster than fear. The healers' herbs cannot touch it. And when the death toll rises, the Collective faces an impossible choice: wait and hope, or send a foraging party into the unknown.
Their destination: Old Bristol. A drowned city where only the tallest towers break the surface. Four volunteers step forward. An engineer who has never left home. An apprentice healer carrying everyone's hopes. An old sailor returning to the city he fled fifty years ago. And a scout with secrets of her own.
Two days across waters no one has charted. A city no one has seen. Strangers who may help them or turn them away.
The Collective is dying.
The cure lies beyond the horizon.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length2 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One The Tide's Rhythm
2Chapter Two The First Fever
3Chapter Three Old Waters
4Chapter Four Beyond the Horizon
5Chapter Five The Spreading Tide
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6Chapter Six What We Don't Have
7Chapter Seven The Gathering
8Chapter Eight The Choosing
9Chapter Nine What We Leave Behind
10Chapter Ten The Threshold
11Chapter Eleven Into Unknown Waters
12Epilogue The Shape on the Horizon
13About the Author
14PREVIEW - Book 2 - The Drowned City
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