Brenda Peterson

The Drowning World: an Aquantis Novel (Volume 1) Brenda Peterson

SEQUEL due out late summer, 2014! This YA fantasy romance novel is like The Hunger Games, set underwater in a future of rising seas, floating cities, and Flood Lands. The DROWNING WORLD is a haunting and mesmerizing story of two different people from two very different worlds. Can a mermaid and a human boy find love? Can they survive in his world and hers?

A regal and highly trained young mermaid, Marina, is half-human and half-dolphin. On her first spy mission to Skyeworld in 2020, she comes ashore on Siesta Key, Florida. On the beach, she meets feisty Lukas, a proud Cuban refugee. Marina will have to choose between the advanced civilization of Aquantis, where she has been chosen as a High Priestess, and her love for Lukas and his dangerously polluted SkyeWorld.

 Marina's magic and skill save Lukas' life. But can she save her own against a lifelong nemesis from her world?