Deepwater Dreams — Sydney J. Van Scyoc

THE ETERNAL SEAS--GIVER OF LIFE...AND DEATH

It is the time of kalinerre--when young men and women of Aurlanis, chosen by lot, must leave their island home to be tested by the sea. Genciti ally engineered descendants of a human race from a world beyond the sky, they surrender to mercies of the vast and terrifying ocean. Most return from their initiation. Some do not.

Orphaned and willful, young Nuela now must enter the waters--to uncover the profound mysteries of a secret ocean-dwelling people...and to fulfill her strange and powerful destiny to unite a humanity torn asunder.