Underwater Christmas — M.L. Buchman / Matthew Lieber Buchman

When can a collegiate submarine challenge become a race for a woman's dreams?Malee Ashoona, born and raised in Nome, Alaska, leaves her state for the first time. Why? To join in the International Submarine Races in Maryland. When her team leader disappears, the pressure mounts until she's forced to take the helm.Vlad Qarpik was raised two hundred miles from Nome, on Russia's Chukchi Peninsula. His path to the ISR has led him through Moscow and France to join the races. Finding Malee and their shared culture is a winning prize of its own.When disaster strikes, can they follow a new course together before it sinks out of sight?