DEPTHBORN

She built a submarine from scrap in her garage. Turns out she inherited a whole sinking university.

Mara Rivera, 19, got into Trenchlight University on a scholarship by building a working sub out of a dumpster, two washing machines, and a tractor battery.

Trenchlight isn't a normal university. It's a two-mile-long, 200-year-old submarine-city hidden in the middle of the Pacific, running on tech no one understands anymore. It's rusty, it's leaking, it's barely holding at 12% power.

And it's been waiting for her.

Mara thinks she's just the broke fraud from San Antonio.

She's wrong.

The heart of Trenchlight - a floating orb of impossible light called the Lumen - has been dying for 200 years, ever since its founder Alara Rivera's bloodline went extinct.

It flares to life the second Mara touches it.

Now she's stuck in Quad 4C that floods every night with her new crew:

Nova - chaos engineering, glitter eyeshadow, can build a bomb from a toaster.

Milo - pre-med, anxious, carries 400 granola bars and thinks snacks fix everything.

June - history, scary-smart, knows every dark secret about the Rivera bloodline.

And above the clouds, Caelum University - the rich, perfect sky-campus that has been trying to sink Trenchlight for 200 years - just realized a Rivera is back.

Led by Kai Caelum, 20, heir to Caelum, who has been ordered to finish what his family started.

To survive, Mara has to become the Captain Trenchlight has been waiting 200 years for.

Even if it kills her.

What to expect:

• Found family crew in a sinking submarine academy

• Scholarship girl to secret heir / ancient bloodline

• Slow-burn enemies to lovers (He falls first and falls harder)

• Living ship, deep sea myths, Atlantean tech

• No harem - one boy, one girl, one slow burn

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