Ava Altair grew up reading fantasy and science fiction novels. She graduated from Florida Tech with a BS in Science Education – Physics and a minor in Computational Mathematics. She taught as an AP Physics teacher for five years in Florida. She now lives in Oregon, teaching horseback riding lessons and managing the stables with her mom. She enjoys hanging out and talking about science concepts and story ideas with her dad.

What it is to be human doesn't apply anymore. The surface of the Earth has been poisoned by years of abuse and now most life lives beneath the waves of the ocean. Over the last 500 years, humans have become fragmented and specialized by genetic manipulation, but two main factions exist in the Undersea. The hybrids, a race that continues to genetically modify themselves to climb the social ladder, and the humans, the unmodified organic race that makes up the lowest tier of society. 

Alex, a Delta Six hybrid, finds an unlikely companion in a human man, Jack, while on a mission to steal the Athena file. Alex withholds the file to elicit help from Jack and they set out on an adventure across the Surface. Their relationship is tenuous until a device mysteriously links them together. Now, running from Alphas, an elite group of hybrid assassins, Alex and Jack must weather the hostile surface of the planet to reach their common goal. They soon find they can't both have the thing they want most, but also can't seem to let each other go.

FLUX

They walked along in silence for the next hour as they traversed the waterways into the next rundown city. The white eyed vultures cawed at them, as they jumped across the broken ceiling of the cement pipes following after their prey. The curved edges of the channels crumbled under their talons, sending dust flying into the humid night air.


"One sec." Alex halted Jack with a hand and knelt down to the dirt. "Can you give us some light?" She grabbed a stick and poked at the dirt. "Before we go any further into the city, I want to show you the building plans."


Jack lit a small fireball in the palm of his hand and squatted down beside her as she drew squares of buildings in the dust.


Chapter 27: Breaking and Entering, Part 1