num_pages: 376
description: Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walkers life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30000 Alpha a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors on her beach in Coney Island. The worlds initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent and Lyrics small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince a boy named Fathom assimilate she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one and there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanitys only hope of survival? Because the real enemy is coming. And its more terrifying than anything the world has ever seen.Action suspense and romance whirlpool dangerously in this cinematic saga a blend of District 9 and The Outsiders.
language: English
title: Undertow
publisher: Clarion Books