Coral_Dragon
Antarctica was never meant to be understood.
When a team of researchers arrives at a remote Antarctic outpost to investigate unusual melt patterns beneath the ice, they expect faulty instruments, unstable weather, and the familiar dangers of the most isolated place on Earth. What they find instead is something that should not exist-an unnatural fracture in the ice, warm to the touch, impossibly precise.
And beneath it... a door.
What lies beyond the ice is not ruin or emptiness, but evidence of deliberate design-ancient structures, preserved life, and a vast hidden world that challenges everything humanity believes about its own history. Creatures long thought extinct are not dead, only sleeping. Others were never known to science at all. And the ice that held them is beginning to fail.
As the boundary between worlds weakens, the expedition is forced into an impossible alliance with a civilization that has lived in secrecy for millennia-guardians of a truth humanity was never meant to uncover. A truth hidden not out of malice, but restraint.
Because the ice was not preserving the past.
It was containing it.
Where the Ice Breaks is a slow-burn science fiction thriller blending discovery, horror, and wonder-where survival depends not on conquest, but on understanding what should never have been found.