No Power. No Food. No Rescue. When the rains came the first time and campus flooded, Cage thought it was a freak weather incident. Joule saw it for what it was—a warning. Life went back to normal when most of the water receded. But the standing puddles left behind weren’t normal. Something had laid eggs in it… The creatures from the San Francisco Bay found a path into the floodwaters. As the rain comes harder the second time, the flood is much deeper and those who go underwater don’t come back up. The rip-currents are the least dangerous things in the water. Can Cage and Joule escape? How will they survive when even the land isn’t safe? And what about the ones they left behind? The Surface is the second book in the fast-paced Black Carbon apocalyptic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author A.J. Scudiere. If you love narrow escapes and don’t-blink/don’t-breathe suspense, you love this new series. Brave the rising tide and read The Surface now! In A.J. Scudiere's Black Carbon series, hard science and speculative fiction overlap in a plausible dystopian future where the climate has gone off the rails and humans are no longer the most dangerous predator. Sibling protagonists Joule and Cage are left with only their intelligence and the families they build around them to survive the apocalypse. Scudiere owes me a few hours of sleep and I'll never look at an open curtain after sunset or a puddle in the yard without a shiver again. --Victoria Raschke, author Voices of the Dead series "After having read three of her books, I'd say she's in the top five of my best writers list. I have a list of King, Grisham, Koontz...you know, those guys. They are the authors you know will deliver." -The Lit Critic "An excellent mystery with some very, very surprising twists." -Bookworks "An action packed thriller. Highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review. Amazon readers say: " She is on a par with Andrea Norton, Marilyn Zimmerman Bradley, Lois McMaster Bujold." "...right up there with the best of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov."