Length2h 26m
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 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One The Tide's Rhythm
15Chapter Ten The Threshold
2Chapter Two The First Fever
16Chapter Eleven Into Unknown Waters
3Chapter Three Old Waters
17Day One
4Chapter Four Beyond the Horizon
18Gull
5Chapter Five The Spreading Tide
19Seren
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6Chapter Six What We Don't Have
20Wren
7Chapter Seven The Gathering
21Day Two
8Chapter Eight The Choosing
22Moss
9Seren
23Seren
10Moss
24Evening
11Gull
25Epilogue The Shape on the Horizon
12Wren
26About the Author
13Together
27PREVIEW - Book 2 - The Drowned City
14Chapter Nine What We Leave Behind
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