Mother Ink by Nicholas Bruner

Seventeen-year-old Lono wants nothing more than to become a Sister at the Observatory. After all, she’s been an acolyte her whole life—she doesn’t know anything else. But on the day of the ascension ceremony, a disturbing vision changes everything. She winds up outside the safety of the Observatory walls where a crow leads her to a boy in need of help.

The boy, Aku, is on a mission to deliver a mysterious key to a man in the city of Atlantis.

Worried he won’t make it on his own and her efforts to save him will be in vain, she joins Aku. Along the way, a disgraced scribe and a reptilian biped join them. This misfit group has no idea what’s in store, but after entering the city of Atlantis, ruled by the tyrannical Regent and his shark warriors, they may never walk out again….

Category: Fantasy – Epic