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

Around nineteen hundred hours, her stomach danced painfully. There was nothing she could do about it. There was no food on the surface, and even if there was, it would be poisoned by the sun. It stared back, straight ahead of her now, sinking just below the clouds and into the horizon. Tall buildings of an old city appeared, taller than the ones in the previous city. Close to her, two unusually shaped buildings loomed kilometers high. The buildings were large at the top, caved in at the sides, and large at the bottom. Some of the building's greyish-white tiles had fallen off and parts of the top were cracked, but overall, it was in the best condition of any building she had seen yet.


Chapter 30: Betrayed, Part 2