The Drowning Fire (Ember Tides Series Book 1)

Kai Navarro has spent his whole life feeling like he’s drowning on dry land. Stuck in Henderson, Nevada, two hundred miles from the nearest ocean, the sixteen year old carries a pull toward water he can’t explain and a father who vanished when he was seven. When a scholarship brings him to a marine science academy on a remote Pacific island, Kai expects coral reefs and college applications. What he finds is an underground civilization, an ancient elemental network on the verge of collapse, and the discovery that his blood carries both fire and water, a combination so dangerous that the last war between elemental factions was fought to prevent it.Now Kai is caught between two civilizations that want to use him, a system that is slowly dying, and the growing realization that his missing father didn’t leave. His father walked into the heart of the network and never came out. To save the world his father gave everything to protect, Kai will have to do the thing both sides say is impossible: weave fire and water together and hold the system from the inside.But the system demands a cost. And the cost takes what you are. Read more