Tessa Tucker

Altonian Summit Tessa Tucker

The skyfliers created a utopia on the tops of the mountain peaks called Altonia. Twenty-four years after the ambitious international space station survivors of WW3, landed and established Altonia, Skye, an independent Fourteen, flies her family's Skymobile around their mountaintop Skycity and signs with her Deaf siblings. Altonia, a global country above the pollution, rubble and radiation on the ground, seems like a utopia until Skye turns Fourteen and takes her Assignment Exams. Making mistakes and breaking rules, while she awaits the Assignment Ceremony after which, her world is turned upside down. Her Assignment is ironically opposite her highborn life up high in the Capital of her childhood. Despite Madam Chancellor and her son's attempts to make her conform to the rules: to commit to him and wed and mate starting at sixteen years old, to put Altonians above all other people, and live only on the highest level, she continues to rebel. In addition to attracting the Chancellor's son, this humble beauty has attracted the attention of two unlikely suitors. While Skye discovers Madam Chancellor's secrets, at the same time Skye discovers that she has gifts, which put her in a position to turn this dystopian government around. This novel, Altonian Summit, is the first in a trilogy, Altonia.