Author: Anna Burke
Published: July 2018
Pages: 375
500 years ago, the human race shrugged the surging seas, the stranging temperatures, and the blackening air. In the twenty sixth century, the time for avoidance, for reversal, for alleviation even, is lapsed. The neglect of forgoers is unignorable. Oceans have swallowed earth’s dry land. The troposphere is a poisonous soup. And its oxygen is choked by noxious fumes. Pockets of mankind’s most privileged live above the water’s surface on unnatural archipelagos. But the unlucky must tread the undersea for themselves. And inside one of these drifter colonies, an infant girl is born facing due north. Appropriately named Compass Rose, she has internal perception of cardinal points. She can see—eyes closed—through the mess of never-degraded plastics and venomous algae blooms, sensing swarming jellyfish and storms in their infancy. She impresses fleet commander Admiral Comita, procuring a coveted spot on her submarine as navigator. But rampaging pirates and problems with naval mines force the commander’s hand. Mercenary spies must borrow her prized wayfinder, and for a cryptic voyage deep into sea wolf waters. Rose can pilot the Man o’ War ship effortlessly, but what about Captain Miranda’s deck of ruffian crewmates?
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