Title: Descend
Series: Awakened
Fate (Book Two)
Author: SkyeMalone
Genre: Young
Adult Paranormal Romance
Publisher:
Wildflower Isle
Publication Date: July 27, 2014
Cover Designer:
Karri Klawiter
Chloe always dreamed of visiting the ocean, and now the ocean is the only place she has left to go. Trapped in the form of a mermaid and on the run from the Sylphaen, her best chance for safety lies in traveling with Zeke to his underwater home and staying under his protection there.
Leaving isn’t easy, however. Her best friend doesn’t know where she’s gone, and her family doesn’t either. She’s been forced to abandon Noah, the boy she’s liked for years and who she’s just discovered likes her too. She only hopes Zeke’s people will help her so she can return soon.
But when conspiracies follow her and people start to die, safety becomes harder to find than ever. The Sylphaen are coming. They’re more powerful than she could have imagined.
And they’re not through with Chloe yet.
Ten
interesting facts about the ocean
- An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet. (Source: MarineBio.org)
- Between 5% and 10% of the ocean has been explored by humans. (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and MarineBio.org)
- The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and contain 97% of the Earth's water. (Source: Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Planet Exhibition)
- 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. (Source: Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Planet Exhibition)
- At the deepest point in the ocean the pressure is more than eight tons per square inch, or the equivalent of one person trying to support fifty jumbo jets. (Source: Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Planet Exhibition)
- Swordfish and marlin are the fastest fish in the ocean, reaching speeds up to 75 miles per hour in quick bursts; bluefin tuna may reach sustained speeds up to 55 miles per hour. (Source: MarineBio.org)
- The speed of sound in water is approximately 1,569 yards per second – nearly five times faster than the speed of sound in air. (Source: MarineBio.org)
- Earth's longest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge – more than 40,000 miles in length – which winds around the globe from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic, skirting Africa, Asia and Australia, and crossing the Pacific to the west coast of North America. It is four times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined. (Source: MarineBio.org)
- Blue whales exceed the size of the greatest known dinosaurs and have hearts the size of small cars. (Source: MarineBio.org)
- The lowest known point on Earth, called the Challenger Deep, is 6.86 miles deep, in the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific. To get an idea of how deep that is, if you could take Mt. Everest and place it at the bottom of the trench, there would still be over a mile of ocean above it. (Source: MarineBio.org)
Full Source/Article Links:
"Little Known Facts
About The Ocean - MarineBio.org". MarineBio Conservation Society. http://marinebio.org/marinebio/facts/index.asp.
"Ocean Facts".
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html.
"Ocean Planet –
Oceanographic Facts". Smithsonian Institution. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/education_oceanographic_facts.html.
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Book One in the Awakened Fate Series
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About Skye
Skye Malone is a fantasy and paranormal romance author, which means she spends most of her time not-quite-convinced that the things she imagines couldn't actually exist.
Born and raised in central Illinois, she hopes someday to travel the world – though in the meantime she’ll take any story that whisks her off to a place where the fantastic lives inside the everyday. She loves strong and passionate characters, complex villains, and satisfying endings that stay with you long after the book is done. An inveterate writer, she can’t go a day without getting her hands on a keyboard, and can usually be found typing away while she listens to all the adventures unfolding in her head.
Skye also writes YA urban fantasy as Megan Joel Peterson and is the author of The Children and the Blood trilogy.
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