Somewhere in the Deep

<b>Tanvi Berwah</b> is a South Asian writer who grew up wanting to touch the stars and reach back in time. Her debut YA novel <i>MONSTERS BORN AND MADE</i> a book that has something to say and isn’t afraid to say it to your face (Lightspeed Magazine) is out now. She graduated from the University of Delhi with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Literature of English and always found ways to fit in The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones in her academic life. A history and space enthusiast she would’ve loved to be an astronomer had her lack of mathematical skills allowed it. Find her at tanviberwah.com or on Twitter and IG: @tanviberwah From the author of <i>Monsters Born and Made</i> comes an action-packed South Asian inspired fantasy that will have your heart racing at every turn. Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents' debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit.<br><br>After a fight goes terribly wrong she's banned from the pits. Now hopeless she is offered a deal: in exchange for the erasure of her debts she must join and protect a hunting party for a rescue mission deep within the mining caves beneath the island.<br><br>Krescent is determined to keep her head down and fulfill her role as the dutiful bodyguard even though she is trapped underground with her childhood enemy and a company of people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were. As they come across creatures she believed only existed in legends it becomes clear they are in far more danger than she could have imagined.<br><br>But someone doesn't want her to make it out alive. And she'll have to figure out who before she's left alone…in the dark.