From debut young adult novelist Jade Shyback comes the firstin the Aqueous series. On the eve of Earth's collapse, young Marisol Blaise istaken to live on an underwater mersation known as Aqueous with parents not herown. There, she must compete in the trials, grueling tests designed to evaluatethe strengths and weaknesses of each trainee, hoping to be assigned to theall-male elite diving team known as the Cuviers. Desperate to prove to herself,the residents, and all of her parents, dead and alive, that she is worthy of this prestigious placement, she workstirelessly to shatter misogynistic beliefs, only to discover that it was notonly the men who constrained her. A much uglier untruth exists.