Where Ice Ends

When an unauthorized expedition ends in disaster, archaeologist Dr. Rusty Gallinger finds himself stranded on a world hidden beyond Earth's frozen horizon—a place no one believed could exist.

Rescued by the Thalyrians, an isolated people who have spent generations protecting their home from humanity, Rusty is thrust into a culture unlike anything he has ever known. Their world is alive, their traditions are ancient, and through a mysterious bond called the Ael'Lyran, his fate becomes entwined with Aelyra—a curious young woman whose compassion challenges everything he believes about himself.

For Rusty, human connection has always felt just out of reach. Navigating a life shaped by sensory differences and years of feeling like an outsider, trusting anyone has never come easily. But as danger from the outside world draws closer and old fears threaten to tear their fragile bond apart, he must decide whether to cling to the life he left behind or embrace a future he never imagined.

Where Ice Ends is the first novel in the Beyond Earth's Final Boundary series—a closed-door sci-fi romantasy about survival, belonging, and discovering that home is sometimes found in the most impossible places.