When summer ends, most kids go home.

But for Matt. Will, Alec, Rowan, Jenna and Quinn, it was never about just a weekend in the woods. These six teens-each one carrying silent wounds from broken homes, military families or emotional trauma-set out on a wilderness survival trip led by an old scoutmaster determined to teach them something real. What they find is something impossible.

Deep in the Texas Hill Country, hidden beyond limestone caverns and the rustle of oak leaves, they discover an ancient portal glowing with strange pull. They step through... and everything changes.

They awaken in Galehollow, a world both beautiful and brutal-one shaped by the season, where myth meets muscle, where dragons fly besides helicopters, where swords clash with guns, and where the land itself responds to emotion memory, and the weight of the soul.

Each teen is marked by this crossing
 
- Matt, the quiet leader, finds a sword that respond to his grief.
 
-Will, the protector, discovers fire hearing voices from the trees.
 
-Alec, the journal-keeper, begins hearing voices from the trees.
 
-Jenna, broken ande brave, sense the pulse of old magic in the soil.
 
-Rowan, angry and wild, connects with creatures that echo his pain.
 
-Quinn, mysterious and guarded, may not be who seems at all.
 
Together, they must survive wilderness trials, awaken long-forgotten ruins, face monstrous creatures born of nightmares, and unravel the truth behind the Sword of Autumn-a legendary weapon tied to fafe, memory, and sacrifice. Every echo of pain they carry from Earth is morrored in this world. And not all of them will return.
 
As they grow stronger, the land begins to change-shifting with the balance between light and shadow, and revealing a deep, ancient war that may have chosen them as its final players.
 
The adventure isn't over.
 
It's just begun.