The Bridge-Walker

The Bridge-Walker: A College Urban Fantasy of Portals, Magic Courts and Found Family! For college student Lina Rivers, the world has always hummed with a strange energy—a quiet static she dismissed as nerves. Her anchors in the sleepy town of Millbrook are her friends: Maya, the brilliant scientist who measures the world in data, and Marcus, the synesthetic artist who sees it in color. But during a routine presentation on a haunted local bridge, the static inside Lina erupts—tearing a hole in their reality and revealing a world of ancient magic and predatory hunters. An exiled guardian from the twilight realm of Aethora names her what the Court fears most: A Bridge-Walker. Every crossing opens a door. Every door demands a price—paid in memories. As impossible anomalies ripple across the Pacific Northwest, Lina's found family becomes her only lifeline. Together they uncover a hidden war between a glittering, dangerous Majikai Council and Unkel Mordecai a visionary willing to retune the world's bridges to open a ravenous elsewhere. From neon-lit repair shops to bioluminescent gardens and a mask-laced mirror hall, Lina is pulled into politics, bargains, and betrayals. With reality fraying and hungry realms pressing close, she must master a power that steals her past even as it might save her future. Bridges connect—and they consume. If the only way to save two worlds is to sacrifice pieces of yourself, how much of your past would you give to secure the future?