Hothouse Flower

YA fantasy

Sixteen-year-old Alyssa is a telepath in the underwater society of the Corpus Dei, where magic comes at a steep price—her mind-reading has fractured her mental health, leaving her with bipolar disorder. When Matias, a dangerously charming spy from the surface Coalition, reveals that her people are slowly destroying the world above, Alyssa is torn between defending her community or betraying it to save a planet she barely knows. But as her grip on reality slips, Alyssa must confront the hardest truth of all: to change the world, she has to learn how to trust herself.