Skykeeper (The Drowning Empire)

The Sky Is Falling Down. 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. But that sea has never liked being restrained. 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. 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.