Lies Beneath the Sea
Bryce and his little brother Oliver have never left the deep. Then they learn the surface is alive, and everything they were taught was a lie.
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Centuries ago people fled beneath the waves, after war and ruin left the surface unlivable. Thousands still make their home in the deep, Bryce and his little brother Oliver among them.
Then the brothers find out the surface is clean, green, and full of people, and the story they were raised on starts to come apart.