Sleepers

Jake Rose defianatly decides to skinny dip in the Gulf. He doesn't know that a Great White awaits. Will it be friend or foe? A test-tube baby, fifteen-year-old Jake Rose is half human and half alien; he has both lungs and gills. He's been raised on the "other blue planet," Rison. However, in a horrifying science-gone-wrong scenario, Rison will soon implode. He evacuates to Earth to live with his human father's parents on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. His mother, Dayexi Quad-de is Rison's ambassador to Earth. She's tasked with finding Risonians a new home on Earth in a peaceful manner. If you like the intrigue and excitement of Ender's Game or I Am Number Four, you'll love Darcy Pattison's science fiction series of survival among the galaxies.