Skip to main content
book cover for Audacity and Ambition

Audacity and Ambition

Book One of The Last Refuge duology

You must sign in to see if this title is available for request. Sign In or Register Now

Book 1 of The Last Refuge

Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app


1

To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.

2

Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.

Pub Date Sep 22 2026 | Archive Date Sep 15 2026


Talking about this book? Use #AudacityandAmbition #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!


Description

A doomed scouting trip to the open seas proves that even when you can see the future, you never have the whole story. And you still may not be able to stop it.

Christopher Clark is not a normal boy. He is an amber—a subspecies of humans who possess superhuman abilities. But even amongst his kind, he is a rarity. He inherited his gift of precognition from his late mother, but if she couldn’t prevent her own death, what hope does he have? In an attempt to move past his trauma, Chris embarks on a boating trip with his friends in scouts. Everything is going fine until the crew and passengers begin to die, starting with the oldest, though, not before it robs them of their memories.

After the tragedy runs its course, Chris becomes separated from his friends and his true love. He awakens with no memory of his past on a hidden island in the middle of the ocean. Here he finds himself responsible for reawakening the local population of elves, sea-dwellers, and other races, who call the disease The Enchantment. They have been asleep and in stasis for centuries, and he may be the only one who can fix it permanently. But with the good comes the bad, when the victims start to remember their conflicts as well as their joys.

War is brewing. Will Chris be able to maintain his personal thesis of radical non-violence, or will the opposition he faces push him past his limits?

A doomed scouting trip to the open seas proves that even when you can see the future, you never have the whole story. And you still may not be able to stop it.

Christopher Clark is not a normal boy...


Available Editions

EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9412181903747
PRICE $3.99 (USD)

Available on NetGalley

NetGalley Reader (EPUB)
NetGalley Shelf App (EPUB)
Send to Kindle (EPUB)
Download (EPUB)