A Portal-Fantasy Trilogy

The Bridge-Walker

An ordinary college student discovers that the old covered bridge in her town is a door between worlds — and that she is the living gateway, paying for every crossing in memory. Found family, costly magic, and a war between two worlds, across three books.

The Trilogy

Three doors, one living gateway

A complete three-book arc. Book One opens the door, Book Two pays the price of power, and Book Three brings everyone home — or doesn’t. Read in order; the cost compounds.

The Accidental Nexus
Book One

The Accidental Nexus

The door opens
Available now

Lina Rivers becomes a living gateway between worlds, and every door she opens costs her another piece of her memory. With a found family of misfit geniuses, she uncovers a hidden war — and learns that being the key to everything makes you the thing everyone wants to control.

The Mirage Queen
Book Two

The Mirage Queen

The dark middle
Coming September 2026 · First draft

Awakened as the living Nexus and treated like a bomb that hasn’t gone off, Lina is offered the one thing no one else will give her — relief — and crowns herself the Mirage Queen to become uncageable. The rescue her family is racing to attempt is exactly what the enemy planned.

Eveline Cross
The Convergence
Book Three
Book Three

The Convergence

The trilogy’s end
In development · outline locked

Two worlds, one living gateway, and a family racing to reach Lina before she becomes something no one can bring home. The cost of power, the lure of relief, and the meaning of family all come due at once — and the ending turns on a single open hand.

Why You'll Love This Series

If you love costly magic

Magic With a Price

Power is never free here. Every crossing, every awakening, every rescue costs something that can’t be bought back.

Found Family

A pre-med genius, a synesthetic artist, and a girl who became a door. The people who stay are the whole point.

Two Worlds at War

Earth and Aethora, bridges and councils and a zealot who wants to retune reality. Stakes that scale across three books.

A Heroine Worth Saving

Lina is brave, funny, and increasingly dangerous — and the trilogy never lets you forget what it costs her to be the key.

For readers of Legendborn (Tracy Deonn), The Magicians (Lev Grossman), Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo), and Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas).

Every door costs something.

Start with The Accidental Nexus — available now — and walk the bridge from the very first crossing.