The Resonance Forge

Where broken magic meets dying worlds, one fractured soul holds the key to cosmic salvation. In the industrial wasteland of Aethermoor, magic is failing and steam-powered technology has risen to fill the void. Lyra Brightforge-exiled from the floating cities for her dangerously unstable magical abilities-scrapes by as an artificer in the smog-choked Ironheart Basin, using her fractured powers to forge impossible hybrid devices that bridge magic and machine.
But when ancient artifacts begin surfacing from the ocean depths, Lyra discovers her "broken" magic isn't a curse-it's an evolutionary adaptation. The artifacts are components of a cosmic network, and massive refugee ships are rising from the deepest trenches, carrying alien survivors fleeing a reality-consuming cosmic threat that devours entire universes. As the mysterious "Echo Plague" strips magical abilities from practitioners across the continent, Lyra realizes humanity faces a choice that will echo across the cosmos: evolve or be eliminated.
The plague isn't destroying magic-it's preparing human consciousness for a cosmic evacuation that will determine whether awareness itself survives the approaching void. Caught between four warring factions, infiltrated by a secret cult bent on eliminating consciousness entirely, and pursued by interdimensional entities that regulate reality itself, Lyra must forge an alliance between bitter enemies.
Her journey leads from the steam-powered harbors of New Meridian to the crystal spires of floating Aetherspire, through forests where wild magic warps reality, to the ancient Resonance Forge that first brought supernatural forces to the world. The Resonance Forge is an epic fusion of steampunk fantasy and cosmic science fiction that begins with intimate character drama and explodes into universe-spanning adventure.
Part His Dark Materials, part Dune, with the magical engineering of The Name of the Wind and the cosmic scope of Hyperion, this novel explores what happens when consciousness itself must evolve to survive forces beyond imagination.