

As is her daily routine, she wakes up at five a.m. The story begins on the last Friday of Ana Dakkar's freshmen year. In a race against deadly enemies, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as well as having to put up with Gemini Twain as her bodyguard, as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full broil, and the freshman are in danger of becoming fish food. The professor that accompanied them informs Ana and the other freshmen that their rival school, Land Institute, and Harding-Pencroft have been fighting a cold war for a hundred and fifty years. All her worries are blown out of the water when, on the bus ride to the ship, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives.

She only hopes she has what it'll take to succeed. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class's weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world.
