Skykeeper
<b>The sky is falling<br /><i>down.</i></b><br /><br />And all her life, Aven has been trained to prevent it from collapsing completely. As a keeper of her underwater empire, her blood is laced with the magic that allows her to seal the 'sky', to reinforce the barrier that holds the great Sea-Above in place.<br /><br />But that sea has never liked being restrained.<br /><br />Strange things are happening in the western corners of the empire. There are rumors of increasingly broken skies. Rising flood waters. Of a tidal wave of destruction that is spreading, racing toward Aven's own peaceful, glittering kingdom. When a routine sky sealing goes tragically wrong, Aven finds herself thrust into a journey toward those hostile western lands, desperate for answers, for a way to stop that wave from surging deeper into the empire and lifting tensions between kingdoms already on the brink of war.<br /><br />And what she discovers will challenge everything she thought she believed, forcing her to rise and meet an impossible destiny--or else watch the sky crash down and drown her along with the rest of her world.