Rank Zero
A Dystopian Adventure

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
In the walled city of Tidewall, everyone has a number. At seventeen you stand before the Registry and are ranked from One to Nine, and that rank decides your work, your home and how much water you are allowed to drink. Beneath the last rank, in the tunnels and pump halls that keep the sea out, live the people who were never ranked at all. The city calls them Zeros. The city says they do not exist.

Marlo Teasdale is nineteen, a sluice-keeper with no badge and the best ear for a failing pump in the Undertide. When the hum of Pump Four goes flat and the tide tables stop adding up, she knows something is wrong. Then a Rank Two scribe falls through a grate into her tunnel, carrying a torn page of the city's Ledger with her mother's name on it, and the number of days left before the highest tide in nineteen years.

There are twelve. There are numbers missing from the Ledger, exactly as many as there are Zeros. The sea wall has a flaw that someone at the top of the city has known about for twenty years. And the one gate that could save everyone has been locked from the outside.

With a twelve-year-old who counts everything, a gentle giant, a gatekeeper with no hands and one inspector who may not be what he seems, Marlo has to steal the truth, open the gate and make a city count the people it forgot.

A fast, hopeful, clean dystopian adventure about the ones who hold the world up. A dystopian science fiction adventure.