



Exiled, she travels to the surface with her nerdy friend Hoku to find the technology needed to protect her people there she meets a group of Amazonian Aviars and discovers that an evil genius named Fathom is sabotaging the technology to draw the Kampii out into the open. Thirteen-year-old Aluna is one of the Kampii (think techno-mermaids), but she challenges the Kampii leaders' silence on the increasing failure of the technology that allows the Kampii to live underwater and escape the dangers of the surface world. There are the Aviars, who fly the skies, the centaur-like Equians, who inhabit the desert, the Deepfell, who have taken on so many shark characteristics that they are barely human at all, and many more. In the far future, the remaining, splintered sects of humanity have used technology to adapt their bodies to the remaining hospitable corners of the world.
