A Portal-Fantasy Trilogy
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
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.

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.

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.
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
Power is never free here. Every crossing, every awakening, every rescue costs something that can’t be bought back.
A pre-med genius, a synesthetic artist, and a girl who became a door. The people who stay are the whole point.
Earth and Aethora, bridges and councils and a zealot who wants to retune reality. Stakes that scale across three books.
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).
Start with The Accidental Nexus — available now — and walk the bridge from the very first crossing.