Electric Life ended with Alara living in London Under and rejecting her life on Estrella. At the beginning of Electric Life: Surge Alara has now lived in Under for six months and she is struggling to adapt. Alara feels claustrophobic, panicked, she dreams of escaping to the surface with her partner, Jay, and travelling in the open but Jay is consumed by Under’s volatile politics. Tensions rise as the city fractures under the pressure of scarcity.  In this dramatic, tense and fast-paced sequel, Alara has to make the most difficult and dangerous decisions of her life to help save Estrella and London Under from mutual and catastrophic destruction.