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The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.
But there's a catch.
They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.
Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.
Because there's a loophole.
If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted... Such as curing your mother's cancer.
There is only one problem.
Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she's a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she's come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.
This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition-including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she's been crushing on, and who doesn't seem to know she exists.
Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.
You Qualify or you die.
Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian is a two-time Nebula Award(R) finalist, a Dragon Award 2018 finalist, and a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. As a double refugee, after immigrating from the USSR during the Cold War, and then escaping from the Civil War in Lebanon (by way of Greece), she spent thirty-five years in Los Angeles, California. She now lives with many wacky cats in a small town in Vermont, and uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art. Vera sold her first story at seventeen, and has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, honorably mentioned in year's best volumes, and translated into at least eight languages. She made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed Dreams of the Compass Rose, followed by Lords of Rainbow. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass made the 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her debut collection Salt of the Air contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated "The Story of Love." Other work includes the 2008 Nebula finalist novella The Duke in His Castle, science fiction collection After the Sundial, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, three Jane Austen parodies, Mansfield Park and Mummies, Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons, and Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret, all part of her Supernatural Jane Austen series, a parody of self-help and supernatural relationships advice, Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love, Cobweb Bride Trilogy, bestselling series the Atlantis Grail, now optioned for film, which includes Qualify, Compete, Win, and Survive, novellas Aeson: Blue, Aeson: Black, fan guides The Atlantis Grail Companion, and People of the Atlantis Grail. In addition to being a writer, philosopher, and award-winning artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books.
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