This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The machines have stopped. The pattern in the ice has not.

Nathan Mercer helped build Concord to offer families more than survival on Mars: comfortable homes, meaningful work, and a share in the future. Now the water project meant to welcome more families has uncovered something no survey predicted.

When a living visitor descends beside the excavation, Nathan faces a possibility no contract can settle: the ice they need may be part of an intelligence they barely understand.

Concord’s occupied homes are safe. But ships are already on their way, debts still have to be paid, and the promised expansion depends on water Nathan can no longer take for granted. An alternative supply must be built before later arrivals lose the chance to make Concord their home.

As Claire demands honest terms for the families bearing the cost, their daughter Sophie discovers how much she wants the mystery to have a simple answer. Nathan must find another way forward—with a community divided over what it can afford to protect.

Building a world of plenty means deciding what must never be taken.

Republic of Plenty, The

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