Beyond the Dome

For a thousand years, the golden dome of Steel Sky Academy has protected the human world from the horrors of the Abyss. That protection just ended. Kaelan Forrester is the academy’s brightest prodigy—a knight whose aura can shatter steel. But when the dome flickers for the first time in a millennium, revealing a sky full of hungry red eyes, he is sent beyond its walls for the first time. Accompanied by a fae with restless wings, a half-demon with a dark past, and a dwarf who speaks in riddles, Kaelan steps into a world he was never meant to see. A world of shadow markets, cursed weapons, and secrets that kingdoms have killed to keep. But something else is waiting in the darkness. Something older than the dome. Something that walks with the weight of an army behind it—even when it stands alone. And for the first time in his life, Kaelan realizes: His aura may not be enough.