Like Light Through Water

In a dust-choked world where the sun has not been seen in generations, the people of Tabrass survive beneath the Shroud, kept alive by engineered weather, regulated crops, and the watchful control of the governing Taxalis. Each year, the Sun Shower ceremony identifies a rare few with genetic immunity to the deadly Cloud Coughs. Those chosen are called Epitopes. They are celebrated. They are claimed.Iridienne Voht quietly hoped but never expected to be one of them. Thrust overnight into a world of polished corridors and hidden power, her blood becomes data and her body a resource for humanity's future. As unexplained attacks and whispers of sabotage fracture the illusion of control, Iridienne begins to see the system for what it truly is: not salvation but selection.Caught between loyalty to the people she loves and the unsettling truth behind humanity's planned escape to a new world, she must decide whether being chosen means being saved or being sacrificed.Like Light Through Water is the first novel of The Sun Shower Series, a haunting dystopian story about survival, sacrifice, and the cost of hope.