Books with author Jonathan Friesen

There's always a Martin. One Martin. Martin Boyle already has plenty to worry about. His germaphobic mother keeps him home from school if she hears so much as a sneeze, and his father is always off somewhere reenacting old war battles. Julia, the most beautiful girl in school, won't even speak to Martin, and the gym teacher is officially out to get him. Which is why Martin really doesn't need this curse hanging over his head. On a trip to the family cemetery, Martin wanders among the tombstones of his ancestors and discovers a disturbing pattern: when one Martin is born, the previous Martin dies. And---just his luck---Martin's aunt is about to give birth to a baby boy, who will, according to tradition, be named Martin. Martin must find a way to break the curse, but every clue seems to lead to a dead end. And time is running out.

As the son of the Deliverer, sixteen-year-old Luca will one day take his father's place and descend yearly to the underground Aquifer to negotiate with the rat-like miners who harvest the world's water. Although securing his people's water supply should bring power, Luca discovers that true power actually rests with the Council, a group that demands unquestioning loyalty and that will do anything to maintain it: divide families, ban emotions, kill those who oppose them, and limit all access to knowledge so that the truth needed to bring about their downfall will never be known. When Luca's father goes missing, Luca quickly realizes that it's up to him to uncover that truth and free everyone from the Council's tyranny.

As the son of the Deliverer, sixteen-year-old Luca will one day take his father's place and descend yearly to the underground Aquifer to negotiate with the rat-like miners who harvest the world's water. Although securing his people's water supply should bring power, Luca discovers that true power actually rests with the Council, a group that demands unquestioning loyalty and that will do anything to maintain it: divide families, ban emotions, kill those who oppose them, and limit all access to knowledge so that the truth needed to bring about their downfall will never be known. When Luca's father goes missing, Luca quickly realizes that it's up to him to uncover that truth and free everyone from the Council's tyranny.