The Meeting Tide - The Drowned Atlas, Book 5

For seven years Wren has searched five regions for Rhea, the engineer she loved and lost, always reading her as a wake already gone. Now the thaw frees the water, and the carried word names one place and one tide: the Meeting Tide, the first great gathering since the Unbinding, at Havenswell, the harbour Wren first sailed from alone.

So she turns west and south, because Rhea has turned too. Not a chase. Two bows bound for the same water at once.

The whole connected world converges on one over-full anchorage, and Wren and Rhea come into the same tide at last, with one small space still uncrossed. Then the sky changes, and a spring storm begins to climb the funnel of the Severn towards the fullest harbour the estuary has ever held.

Will the connected world finally hand her back?