Does the future already exist?

Is free will truly free?

Can consciousness be artificial?

What lies beyond spacetime?

Twenty years ago, a tragic accident in the Canadian Arctic nearly claimed the life of fourteen-year-old Christopher Beaufort. He remembers the woman who saved him: a mysterious Inuit stranger with extraordinary strength and abilities that seemed to defy the laws of physics. Yet no evidence of her existence was ever found.

Christopher has spent two decades convincing himself she was a hallucination, conjured by a terrified boy struggling to survive. Then an image in a television commercial shatters that explanation. The image is unmistakable. Someone else has seen her.

Determined to discover the truth, Christopher returns to the Arctic with his girlfriend, his sister, and a small group of companions. But the search for his rescuer leads them toward something far greater than an explanation for his survival. Their discoveries point toward a universe far stranger than the one they thought they knew, forcing them to confront the nature of time, the origins of consciousness, and the foundations of reality itself.

As their investigation deepens, questions once confined to philosophical debate and theoretical physics become intensely personal. Discovering how the universe works may mean reconsidering everything they believe about who they are, the choices they make, and the lives they have lived.

Drawing on contemporary physics and cosmology, advances in artificial intelligence, and extensive scientific research, AURORA EYES explores big questions through even bigger ideas. It follows real scientific inquiry into its most provocative possibilities, where discoveries about the universe could transform our understanding of existence itself.

Rooted in real science, AURORA EYES raises an unsettling possibility: the universe revealed in these pages may be the very universe we inhabit.

Written by Anne Greene, with scientific research and consultation by Jack Young, a former researcher in theoretical physics, this science-fiction mystery blends an intimate human quest with the haunting beauty and isolation of the Canadian Arctic—and takes readers to the boundaries of human knowledge.

What if the greatest mysteries of the universe have answers we are not yet prepared to understand?