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

The water pressed in, dark and suffocating. Jack hated being underwater. As he sunk lower, his nerves started up. The water always made him nervous. It was like being in an endless night. He wanted to be on the surface again, in the wide open. No restraints. No restrictions.


Passing through Security had been a breeze. They really should make it more difficult, but with the system hacks the humans had, and the fact that most people who worked security were human, it wasn't really even an obstacle. He stroked his naked face with the back of his hand. He missed his beard, he felt exposed. It was necessary though. They hadn't recognized him with his haircut. He ran his hand through the short cropped brown hair on his head. He shook his head. He couldn't believe the things he was willing to do for this woman. He was back down here again.


Chapter 50: May 2nd