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

Jack strode down the halls of the modified cruise ship. He nodded and waved to people as he went. Several of them tried to stop and talk, but Jack wasn't in the mood. He ducked away from them as politely as he could and took the elevator down to the cafeteria. He didn't really want to walk in on Alex and Tom just when they were finally able to be together for the first time in eight years.


He punched " level 10" on the elevator and waited for it to open back up. Jack wasn't paying attention when the elevator door finally opened. He was suddenly flung backward as if being hit by a torpedo. His arms tightened around the small being as he realized who it was.


"Lexi," he painfully exhaled as he fought for breath.


"I missed you so much, Dad!" Her arms squeezed him hard around the middle.


Jack chuckled. "You don't have to call me Dad anymore."


Lexi pulled her head away from his chest and gave him a "don't be stupid" look.


Chapter 155: Family Dinner