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The Drowning World, First Contact: An Aquantis Series Novel by Brenda Peterson

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The Drowning World, First Contact: An Aquantis Series Novel

by Brenda Peterson

Narrator Brenda Peterson

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Length 3 hours 37 minutes

Language English

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Two different people from two very different worlds. Can a mermaid and a human boy find love? Can they survive in his world and hers?
A regal and highly trained young mermaid, Marina, is on her first spy mission to Skyeworld in 2020. She comes ashore on Siesta Key, Florida where she meets feisty Lukas, a proud Cuban refugee. Marina will have to choose between the advanced civilization of Aquantis, where she has been chosen as a High Priestess, and her love for Lukas and his dangerously polluted SkyeWorld.
The DROWNING WORLD is an inventive and mesmerizing saga set in a vivid future of rising seas, floating cities, and Flood Lands. Marina’s magic and skill save Lukas’ life. But can she save her own against a lifelong nemesis from her world?
"The Drowning World is a rollicking good tale of shape-shifting, time travel, mermaids, the secret world of Aquantis, and other dreams of Peterson's glorious imagination--all set against the backdrop of powerful forces--the fate of the seas, human turmoil, young love, and what everyone feels at some point in their life: The sense of being an alien in an alien land. Its pull is oceanic--it quickly lures you deep beneath its waves while time evaporates."--Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife
“A wonderful novel,”—Marion Copeland, Nature in Legend and Story
“This underwater world is so believable and vivid and fascinating. It’s a page-turner. Irresistible.”—Sy Montgomery, The Good, Good Pig

Fiction Fantasy

Brenda Peterson is the author of 20 books, including the novel Duck and Cover, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” and her first memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, which was chosen as a “Best Spiritual Book of the Year.” The author reads this new memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. It waschosen as an Indie Next “Best Top Read” and named among the “Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 by The Christian Science Monitor. Peterson lives on the Salish Sea in Seattle,Washington. Her first children’s book, Leopard and Silkie: One Boy’s Quest to Save Seal Pups is out in early 2012. For more audio/video and back-story on this new memoir and other books, please visit: www.IWantToBeLeftBehind.com.