Aqua: (1 Elements)

The adventure of Hunger Games, the scope of Maze Runner, and the heart of The Selection, all under one ocean! 12 years to prepare for one chance to succeed... Being afraid of failure is normal, but no one fears success except eighteen-year-old Jazwyn Ripley, who has worked her entire life for a chance to become more than the scant apprenticeships in the Seaboard North stacks can offer. It's all too clear that at the bottom, there's nowhere to go but down. Only the best can begin career training at Gaia Sur, the elite academy on the ocean floor, but when Jazz begins receiving cryptic messages from past Gaia cadets originating from within the earth's core, she and her friends discover that the road to everything they've ever wanted now leads somewhere they never intended to go. The State estimates the atmosphere will sustain six or seven more generations before overcrowding, air quality, and economic hardship make it nearly impossible to survive, let alone thrive in an ever-shrinking topside world. Government buildings and the global elite have already relocated four miles underwater where Gaia Sur has led the way in biodesign, omnicoding, astronavigation, and diplomacy careers, just to name a few of the futures available to those who have what it takes to make a difference for themselves and their families. For everyone else--the Seaboarder working class, the Tinkerers, the Fishers, the Fringe, even the domed Skyboard mountain pseudo-elite--time is running out. Fifteen students will beat the odds only to find themselves in over their heads with one way out: going deeper. Fast-paced, character driven, and full of plot twists you'll never see coming, take a deep breath and get ready to dive into AQUA, the first book in The Elements series.

About the Author :
Tracy Korn's years of teaching high school English have taught her that teenagers are superheroes. Their resiliency, drive, and passion for making the world a better place inspired her character driven, high action and adventure debut YA novel, AQUA, which is the first in The Elements Series. The sequel, TERRA, will be released on 8/27/16. When she's not writing/ reading/ teaching, she coaches FTC robotics, and tries to learn everything she can about filmmaking. Tracy holds Master's degrees from Indiana University in Secondary Education, in Language, Culture, and Literacy Education, and in English. She lives in Indiana with her husband and their two very own superheroes.

Review :
"A solid, engagingly-written entry into the YA dystopian arena, well worth a look." --K.M. Herkes, author of Controlled Descent