My Last Continent: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the center of its harmful and endangered globe” (M.L. Stedman, NY Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).

It is only among the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters of Antarctica that Deb Gardener and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For a couple blissful about My Last Continent: A Novel weeks each year they research the practices of Emperor and Adelie penguins and discover solace in their function and in a single another. But Antarctica, like their fleeting romance, is a fragile place, imperiled by the world to the north.

Every year, Deb and Keller play tour guide towards the passengers on the small expedition ship that ferries them with their research station. But this year, when Keller fails to appear up to speed, Deb begins to reconsider their complicated past as well as the uncertainty of any upcoming they might talk about. Then, shortly in to the trip, Deb’s dispatch receives a crisis signal from The Australis, a cruise liner which has strike desperate problems in the ice-choked waters from the Southern Ocean. Soon Deb’s part changes from researcher to rescuer; among the team of this sinking dispatch, Deb learns, is Keller.

As Deb and Keller’s troubled histories collide in this “original and entirely authentic love tale” (Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project), Midge Raymond uses us with an memorable voyage deep in to the wonders from the Antarctic as well as the mysteries of the human heart. My Last Continent is “a delicate exploration of the way the smallest action can ripple through an ecosystem-seemingly impenetrable, but as delicate as the human center” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Atmospheric and exciting…The story and vivid writing could keep readers glued to the pages” (Library Journal).