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 continued on in silence. The air cooled and the smoke cleared completely. They wound their way through a few caverns until the rock narrowed into a tunnel. Ahead small clicks echoed through the tunnel. Jack halted, pulling Lexi to a stop. They waited, listening to the etchings of claws against the bare stone. Jack directed his fireball ahead of them into a large cavern ahead.


Dozens of black glittering eyes peered back at them from one large spider beast. Lexi sucked in a breath. The beast watched the fireball wiz towards it. As it came in range, it lashed its large hairy leg, knocking it askew. The fireball went whirling to the side. Jack regained control and swerved the fireball past the spider into the cavern. The spider turned and followed it. Jack sped it up and the spider lunged after it, its shadow engulfed the view.


Chapter 86: Leaving, Part 2