Everyone on the station agreed the little robot was gone for good. Not one of them had actually looked.The barge The Marigold has barely tied up at Tassel's Landing, a crowded bazaar-station out along the Scatter, all stalls and walkways, food-smoke and lantern-string, where thousands pass through and nobody is anybody's business for long, before the Landing's only piece of fresh news reaches the crew. Woo is gone.Woo, a small, much-mended househol...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A drowned-mine rescue and a love story crossing a flooded ocean: hopeful post-apocalyptic fiction for readers of Becky Chambers and Station Eleven.On the first fair tide of the year, scout Wren sails south to the tin coast: a country of granite carns standing out of a silver sea, where divers work the drowned mines their great-grandparents worked dry. For the first time she sails into a strange ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The sea rose. The world drowned. People adapted, and lost each other.Wren was one of the four who saved Havenswell: the scout who steered the medicine runners through the storm and came home a hero. But heroes carry private cargo. Hers is a letter, seven years old, folded soft as cloth, written to Rhea, the engineer who was traded to the drowned city's deep-dwellers, who asked Wren to descend with her, and whom ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Return Tides of Tomorrow Book Five by August MaeWhile 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 eve...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The machines didn't break down. They sat down.On the eve of the harvest that keeps a frontier farm-town alive, every robot in Cobb's Reach falls silent. Dozens of field units stand motionless in the rows, unharmed, patient, and refusing to work. The town wants them wiped and rebooted before the grain is lost. They've hired the wrong man for that.Roy is a robot wrangler. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Drowned City Tides of Tomorrow Book Two by August MaeThey came seeking medicine. They found a world.The towers of Old Bristol rise from the water like the fingers of a buried giant, and in their heights, people have built lives the Estuary Collective never imagined. Vertical gardens cascade from balconies. Bridges span between skyscrapers at dizzying heights. And somewhere in this m...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Storm Tides of Tomorrow Book Four by August MaeThe sky has been watching them since they left Bristol.What begins as a darkening on the horizon becomes something else entirely. A storm unlike any in living memory, rising from the deep waters, hungry and relentless. The kind of weather that swallows boats whole and leaves nothing behind but questions.Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Underloft Tides of Tomorrow Book Three by August MaeBeneath the drowned towers of Bristol, in pressurised chambers where every breath is borrowed from the sea, a different kind of survival has taken root.The Underloft speaks through action, not words. They judge by craft, not promises. And they remember everyone who comes to their threshold.Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wren have c...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Sickness Tides of Tomorrow Book One by August MaeFifty 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.Then the coughing starts.The illness spreads faster than fear. The healers' herbs cannot touch it. And when the deat...

Millbrook has acquired a reputation it would rather not have. A handful of deaths in not very many seasons, and a baker who keeps turning out to have been standing somewhere nearby, are exactly the kind of thing that travels. One cold November morning it arrives in person: Danny Wolfe, a true-crime podcaster with a microphone, a hired cottage, and a theory that a village this pretty has no business burying so many people. Eliza Hartwell, who has spent four cases learning to keep her head d...

The Storm Tides of Tomorrow Book Four by August MaeThe sky has been watching them since they left Bristol.What begins as a darkening on the horizon becomes something else entirely. A storm unlike any in living memory, rising from the deep waters, hungry and relentless. The kind of weather that swallows boats whole and leaves nothing behind but questions.Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wren have found what Havenswell needs. Now they must bri...

The sea took a country. The people came down to its high stone and went on living.A year after she mended a Welsh lagoon and earned her way into a closed community a tide's work at a time, Wren rounds the three southern headlands on the first fair weather of the year. In her sea-chest: the first fair copies of the Drowned Atlas, the hand-drawn charts that are stitching a sundered coast back together. Against her ribs, in oilskin worn soft as cloth: the letter she h...