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 led Alex down the hall to the conference room where they took a seat. The look on her face was still that of shock.


"I can't believe you're alive..." she stammered. "Henry, he showed me the video of you dying in action. I saw your dead body."


Tom reached out for her hands. They felt cold and clammy. "I'm okay. I'm here now."


Her eyes looked up into his, "Lexi..." she whispered.


"I know. She's mine. She's half-human."


Alex nodded absently. "There was so much I wanted... so much we couldn't. What happened to you?"


Tom squeeze her hand. "I got a note from you saying you never wanted to see me again. Of course, I thought it was a ploy, but I messaged, I called, and I got more notes saying horrible things you hated about me. I still didn't give up and after two years I was arrested for tax evasion and woke up in a research facility with my rights stripped away."


Alex squeezed his hand back. "What did they do to you?" She asked in a whisper.


Chapter 154: Battle Pods