The Salt Road

By R.C. Wilder

Cade Ferro is a disposable man on a dying world.

For three years he has cut salt on Maroo - a quarantined planet the Combine strip-mines for profit and files away as dead rock. When a collapse leaves him for dead in the low ground, Cade wakes to an impossible truth: the world is not dead. It is one vast living mind, ancient and wounded - and he is the only human alive who can hear it.

Taken in by the Vash, the marked people who have guarded that secret for generations, Cade is pulled into a war he never chose. The Combine's machines are cutting toward the planet's living heart. A fleet is already moving to finish what thirty years of quiet plunder began. And the truth of who Cade really is - why the world reached for him, and no one else - runs deeper than the deepest road.

To save a world, a rootless man has to finally decide what he belongs to, and what he is willing to lose to keep it.

The Salt Road is the first book in The Maroo Cycle, an epic science-fantasy adventure for readers who love immersive worlds, a reluctant hero crossing the threshold, and stakes that span a planet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7T879SG
• ISBN13: 9798185919873
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"