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

Tom woke on the couch again. It wasn't his favorite place to sleep, but Brooke had been mad about something last night. He thought hard about what triggered this fight. He stretched to get the juices flowing again. After dinner, she tried to sit with him on the couch, but she kept stretching out and he kept giving her space. Apparently, that wasn't the right call. She had stormed off and told him to sleep on the couch.


He had come to hate the weekends. At least during the week he was at work most of the time and only had to deal with her at the end of the day a couple nights a week. She usually had book club or a dinner party and would leave a meal for him in the oven. The other nights would all start out nice, but now she was constantly pushing him into situations where he would have to refuse her. She was starting to get frustrated with him. For god sakes, he was getting frustrated with himself.


Chapter 136: Waterpark