Aquifer

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.