Price of Passage

The deep Rift has been restored. The balance has shifted. And Lyra is beginning to understand that the price of passage is not the crossing — it's what waits on the other side. Weeks after the restoration of the deep Rift, the magic of the five domains is adjusting to its new centre of gravity: Lyra. The Ash Domain's endings-magic runs differently. The Domain of Thorns' roots are pulling toward an empty space. And the Domain of Ruin — leaderless for sixty years, hungry for an anchor — is drawing everything around it into its orbit. To stabilise the system, Lyra must do what Senna did before her: enter into a formal relationship with a domain that speaks the language of completion. Of things becoming what they were always going to be. But the Ruin Domain's archives hold a secret that changes everything Lyra thought she understood about her mother, about Senna, and about the cost that comes with being the point around which the Rift organises itself. Kael is watching her work and trying not to examine what it means that he travelled through the night to reach her. Soren has spent a hundred years observing thirty-seven versions of this story and has finally decided he would rather be in one than above it. And Lyra, standing at the centre of a system that needs her to choose, is learning that the most important decisions are the ones you make knowingly — not because you have to, but because you understand what you're saying yes to. The Price of Passage is the third book in the Rift Walker series — slow-burn, dual POV, dark romantasy with a why-choose romance. Best read after Book II: What the Deep Remembers.