Growing up the daughter of a single mother and illegal immigrant, America Salazar's only escape from poverty was to stay in school. But being brilliant helped, and she made it into college on a science scholarship, which soon led her to graduate school and the life of a teacher and scientist at UCLA. Despite some friction with her advisor, her career is off to a successful start, and she has just gotten her Ph.D at the young age of twenty-five.

Within the last month, America has also come to realize that she is the reincarnation of the titan Tethys. She knows that this power comes with responsibility; to protect people from the dangers of this new world, and to help restore the world's climate and ecosystems before humanity wrecks them even further.