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

A week after Henry's death, Abigail led Zeven into the foyer.


"Good afternoon. What brings you here this time?"


"Well, I actually have a proposition for your friend Jack here. See, with Henry gone, we need a new candidate to run for representative. We think he would be the perfect man for the job. And with the Truex empire behind him, we think he can win."


"But Jack isn't even a hybrid. He doesn't even have the same rights as a hybrid," Alex stated. "Do you think people will even vote for him?"


"Well, that's not entirely true. Jack is a Genetic Modified Individual, which is the first step toward hybrid. He is in a unique position to speak for everyone really. And you yourself support the human rights movement, don't you? So I see this as a marriage made in heaven. What do you think?"


Alex looked at Jack. "It's his decision. I will support him whatever he decides."


Chapter 80: Candidate/Research