Ice Walls: A World Unknown
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When Dr. Elias Caldwell-one of the world's most respected explorers-vanishes in Antarctica, he leaves behind one impossible message:
"Don't trust anyone. Find the truth beneath the ice."
Reina Vasquez, his brilliant but haunted protégé, is suddenly thrust into a deadly conspiracy that reaches farther than any map ever dared to show. The Council wants Elias silenced. The Sentinel Protocol wants the truth buried. And the men who broke into his home... they want Reina dead.
With no one else to turn to, Reina assembles the only team capable of surviving the continent that kills even the prepared:
Alexei Griggs - the gruff mechanic with a heart of gold
Callie Harper - the medic who can save a life with one hand and break a jaw with the other
Damian Cross - the charming, infuriating tracker she swore she'd never work with again... and the one man she might still trust
Together, they descend into a frozen world of abandoned research sites, buried structures, encrypted clues, and ancient secrets locked beneath miles of ice.
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