Trust me-dive in!' –Jodi Picoult, New York Times Bestselling author of The Storyteller and Between the Lines 'What if the most devastating moment of your life was also the beginning of something beautiful? Girl Underwater is a compelling coming-of-age love story that will have you rooting for its teen narrator, a girl who survives a disaster, and finds herself trapped between a traumatic past and a fragile future. 'With its subzero temperatures that will make you reach for a blanket and a wounded but never weakened heroine, Kells' assured debut is a winner.' - Kirkus 'Kells's visceral story is quite memorable and eminently readable.' - Publishers Weekly 'Skillfully interspersing flashbacks with current events, debut novelist Kells has written an absorbing tale that will grip anyone who enjoys survival stories or psychological dramas.' - Library Journal (starred review) 'As a former competitive swimmer and the recipient of a medical degree, first-novelist Kells amply demonstrates her technical knowledge, lending realism to the story.The story ably demonstrates that survival is not just physical, but also mental and emotional.' - Booklist “A romantic thriller full of raw and conflicting emotions…a roller coaster full of frustrating, exciting, heartwarming and heart-wrenching moments that leave surprises at every turn.” - Deseret News

“The riveting drama is sure to keep readers up into the night devouring each and every twist and harrowing scene.” - RT Reviews “Your first must-read beach book of the summer.”. In the wilderness, the concept of survival is clear-cut. But now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could’ve imagined. Instead she’s avoided him since the first day of freshman year. Colin is also the only person in Avery’s college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own person-something she refused to do. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. That all changes when Avery’s red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. Now a sophomore on her university’s nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her-only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness.

Girl Underwater by Claire Kells