Adventure

A decaying network of ancient stabilization engines — the Anchorholds — keeps a scattered archipelago of drifting islands habitable. When Mira Calder's younger brother disappears during an engineered storm, Mira is pulled from small-scale repairs into a fight over whether those machines should be used to freeze the islands into a controllable order or dismantled to restore natural freedom at great cost.

A salty, urgent adventure: salvage diver Juno Maris finds an iridescent shard tied to an ancient Anchor Spire that keeps drifting isles in place. Hunted by a profit-driven fleet, she and a ragged crew race to decode the shard, confront a moral ultimatum, and attempt a communal chorus to tame a machine that feeds on memory.

A coastal community races to recover three keyed stones and perform an ancestral rite to rebind a sentient tidal guardian when an extraction company moves to harvest the bay. As alliances fracture and the sea fights back, a damaged chronicle and a father’s memory become the only guides.

A young horologist named Tamsin Hale defends her island's luminous tide from a corporation that would harvest its memory. With a mechanical companion, a gifted chronoglass, and a band of uneasy allies she learns the weight of stewardship and the power of patient, cunning resistance.

In a sky-archipelago where islands drift and machines sing, a young mender named Rin Calder follows a frayed seam in the air to find a missing courier. With a mapmaker's gift, a brass sky-needle, and unlikely companions, she must teach a great mooring to listen rather than command.

When the crystalline Anchorstone that steadies the Shards is stolen, tether-rigger Ari Voss must chase it through fog-choked channels and the iron heart of the Cairnspike. With a ragged crew and a stubborn promise to protect her island, she faces betrayals, a calculating director, and the cost of returning a people's song.

In a fractured skyscape where towns hang by tethers and storms can be owned, young windwright Saela must retrieve a stolen pulse that keeps her harbor alive. With a mechanical companion, stubborn skill, and new allies, she faces a syndicate that trades in weather and returns to mend what was broken.

When the Orison Key that keeps Nettleanchor aloft is stolen, twenty-two-year-old Arin Vale sails into the Grey Expanse to get it back. Joined by a weathered pilot, a quick mechanic, and a brass raven, he faces storms, thieves, and hard choices to save his town and himself.

In a city of tethered isles, young mechanic Ori sets out to recover the stolen Gyreheart — the machine that keeps his home aloft. From wind-lenses to mechanical kestrels, he must cross the Cinder Atoll, face the Vaulteers, and choose what he will sacrifice to mend both machine and community.

When the luminous Lodepearls that steady her seaside town are stolen, ten-year-old inventor Juniper Rook sets out with a clockwork gull, a loyal friend, and a handful of odd helpers to recover them. On fog-slick nights and in caves of glass, she must outwit a grieving collector, mend machines, and learn that repair often means sharing light, not hoarding it.

In the archipelago of Ventancia, young mechanic Asha takes a lantern stolen by tide and greed back to life. Given a strange brass “Aequor Eye” and a small automaton, she must outwit a salvage baron, learn to read the sea, and return the lamp to the Harbor Spire—restoring trade and teaching a town to listen to tides.

Ten-year-old Eli leaves the safety of his undersea city to recover the Coral Compass after a quake knocks it loose. With the help of Dr. Hana and a clever octopus named Morse, he must outsmart Captain Rook, navigate a kelp labyrinth, and restore the currents that keep Pelagia alive.

In a world of tethered floating islands, young cartographer Mara Voss follows a ruinous trail of stolen harmonic beads. She and a ragged crew must mend gates, face masked Unbinders, and unravel a market that sells absence. Adventure, repair, and music of the chords.