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Three years ago, Eli Voss lost his sister. His father lost everything. While the rest of Collinsville moved on, Richard Voss disappeared into the garage and started building — a machine to reach the dead, to find the daughter the world told him was gone for good. The town calls him dangerous. Eli just calls him Dad, and quietly keeps the lights on, the food made, the man alive. Then one sleepless night Eli finishes what his father started. The machine wakes. And something in Eli wakes with it. Now he can see the dead. Spirits no one else knows are there, layered over the ordinary streets of the town he's lived in his whole life — and Eli is the only one who can cross to where they are. Some of them need help. Some of them don't want any. And some of them have been watching him back. With his best friend Marcus building impossible machines in a backyard shed, and Nadia — sharp, steady, the first person in three years to see him as something other than the boy whose sister died — pulling him toward a life he'd stopped letting himself want, Eli begins to understand what he's becoming. But the more he learns, the closer he comes to the thing humming beneath his town. Something old. Something patient. Something that has been waiting a very long time for a door like the one his father built. Some doors only open one way.

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In the second book of the AETHAL trilogy, the line Eli Voss walks between the living and the dead grows thinner, and far more dangerous. His own abilities begin to betray him. The dead in his town are no longer content to drift unseen. And when tragedy strikes close to home, Eli is forced to confront not only the things that hunt in the dark, but the grief he has spent years refusing to face. As he and his closest friends race to build a way to fight back, a few quiet, impossible deaths begin to point toward a single unsettling possibility: that something has been moving beneath the surface of his ordinary town for a very long time — patient, deliberate, and watching. The more Eli uncovers, the more he begins to suspect that nothing happening around him is an accident. Some doors, once opened, do not close. And some things, once they have noticed you, never look away.

SYNOPSIS

The signal under the town has found a machine big enough to answer it. Now, Eli Voss has to find a way to tear it down. Eli is done running from the secrets of the dead. After learning the true depth of the tragedy that built Collinsville, his search for answers leads him to a hidden basement—and to the ghost of a records keeper who has been waiting over a century for someone to finally look. What she reveals shatters everything Eli thought he knew about the world. The ancient entity he has been chasing isn’t just hiding in the crowd; it’s actively building a massive, four-story replication of his father’s original machine, and the physical structure is already forty-two percent of the way to ready. But the final countdown has begun. With Nadia fully stepping into the fight after witnessing the impossible truth, and Marcus hacking their tracking tech to follow a shifting target in real time, the trio must plan a dangerous midnight infiltration. The site is a fortress, guarded by human patrols and a wall of aggressive spirits acting as an early warning system. To stand a chance at stopping the machine before the barrier is ripped completely open, Eli will have to push his raw abilities past anything he has ever explored. From a quiet kitchen table where three years of silent grief finally break, to a catastrophic point-blank showdown where the steel framework itself begins to scream, Eli must risk everything to protect the living world. Some doors must be destroyed.