The Eldergloom Chronicles: Wielder of the Wraithfire

Vaughn Corven has spent twenty-six years building an ordinary life in Lincoln, Nebraska, a marriage worth keeping, a family worth loving, and a retail manager's hard-won patience for things that refuse to cooperate. Then the symbols start appearing. In the shadows on his lawn. In his wife's greenhouse, where the ivy grows into doorways. In the drawings, his nine-year-old Lee can't stop drawing or speaking about things no child should know.

When a mysterious book called the Codex Umbralus finds its way into Vaughn's hands, he makes a choice that tears him from his world and drops him into Eldergloom: a dying realm of perpetual twilight, drowned cities, and forgotten dead, ruled by an ancient entity who feeds on memory itself.

To survive, Vaughn must wield the wraithfire, a power that burns away his most precious memories as fuel. Every monster defeated costs him a piece of his past. His wedding day. His proposal. The reason he's fighting at all.

Because the Veilfather doesn't want Vaughn's life. He wants Vaughn to forget, and a man who can't remember his family can't find his way home to them.

But Eldergloom remembers what it used to be. And something older than the dark is beginning to wake.

A dark portal fantasy about an ordinary man, an extraordinary price, and the love that persists even when memory fails. Perfect for readers who want cosmic stakes anchored in a beating human heart.