Beyond the Oak Tree

He fractured time to save her. Now time wants revenge.

Eric thought rescuing Kaitlyn would fix everything. Instead, it cost him Caitlyn, cracked open the past, and invited chaos into the present. With the Etherstone reassembled-an unstable element never meant for Earth-time itself has begun to unravel.

As his senior year ends, Eric and his closest friends awaken to something terrifying and wondrous: they've been changed by the stone. Each now bears a piece of its power-otherworldly, elemental, and impossible to control.

But they aren't the only ones.

Far beyond the oak tree, others have touched the Etherstone. Not all of them are friends. Not all of them want to keep the timeline intact.

And somewhere in the shifting fabric of reality, something ancient watches. A force older than the timeline itself. A protector... or something worse.

Nicole, once just a face in the crowd, now glows with Etherstone energy-proof that the line between human and something more has already blurred. The team will need her, and each other, to survive what's coming.

Because the real danger isn't rewriting the past.
It's what's been written before them.