The Sundered

You don't go in the water. You don't touch it. If you do, it gets you, drags you down, and you're gone.

The Earth is flooded with water that kills on contact. There is no arable land; there is no natural shelter. Fortunately, the invading aliens called Sundered Ones can create both as if by magic, and when humanity realized the Sundered were psychically susceptible, it wasted no time enslaving the lot of them. 

There's a problem with that. When claimed and controlled, the Sundered die. When they finally go extinct, humanity will follow.

At nineteen, Harry Iskinder isn't ready to save anyone, much less the world, but he's the only one who can. He seeks for the Hope of Humanity, a mysterious object supposedly with the power to fix the planet. Searching for generations, the Iskinder family have mapped the entire world, little by little narrowing down where the Hope might be.

The day Harry claims the Aakesh changes it all.

Aakesh: frighteningly powerful, disturbingly smart, and unnervingly human, he does not hide the fact that he let Harry claim him for his own purposes. With Aakesh's power, Harry may be able to find the Hope. With Aakesh rage, the Hope might not be enough to save anyone.

It's extinction or extinction, with a race to find hope. No matter what the cost is, Harry knows he has to try.

From bestselling author Ruthanne Reid, THE SUNDERED is the tenth book in the series Among the Mythos, and is a bold exploration of personhood, impossible choices, and the cost of being a hero.
 

Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher and Ursula K. LeGuin. 
 

"There are movies you watch, works of art you see, poems and books you read that you walk away from going 'whoa.' This was one of them for me."

-Leah Petersen, author, REVIEW: "Blown away right now."