Aurora Rift

Rowan and Melissa Veyr book an isolated glass igloo getaway in Alaska to reconnect after years of strain. During a rare aurora event intensified by a planetary alignment, the northern lights form impossible geometric patterns. A summoning ritual from another world collides with the emergency intervention of a dying Supreme Intelligence called the Axiom. The threshold breaks. They fall together into Veydris.

The empire that summoned them expected one controllable champion. They got a couple — and the world will think Ro is the chosen weapon. The truth is more dangerous. Mel is the key. Ro is the shield. The Axiom is dying. And something called the Null Tide is hollowing the System, the gods, the dungeons, and reality itself.

Think the survival weight of Sword of Kaigen, the System depth of Defiance of the Fall, the married-protagonist emotional stakes of Project Hail Mary, and the cosmic horror beneath He Who Fights With Monsters. Earned power. Real cost. A marriage at the center of a dying world.