Hypernea

Seven decaying kingdoms. One ancient curse that threatens to destroy them all.

High in a secluded tower, Prince Sigismund lives in quiet exile. He is an outcast in his own kingdom—his black eyes feared as the harbinger of the ruin that has swept across the land. Alone and blamed, he watches the world from afar, haunted by a fate he never chose.

When his eighteenth birthday arrives, he knows he is out of time. Forced to make a daring escape from death or exile, he finds a world on the brink of war. On his perilous journey he meets others like him, and discovers their stories are bound by the same dark omen.

A heartbroken moondrake.

A valiant griffin.

A whimsical fairy.

All cursed with black eyes.

But as a cantankerous old wizard brings them all together to save the world from coming destruction, the Dragonking has other plans.

He wields the sinister Never-Was, a force that doesn’t just hold the power to destroy life on Solarius—but to erase existence itself. Now, only Prince Sigismund and his unlikely allies stand between existence and total annihilation.

Author Biography

Kyle Becker is podcaster, independent journalist, former cable news writer, and viral media expert who has always been a storyteller at heart. He has a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Iowa, where he focused on Russian language and literature. He has worked as a journalist in Moscow for a private economic news agency. He has been a published poet, a lead actor, and a failed art student. He has lived from coast to coast in the United States and abroad. His life has been an odd series of adventures and he hopes to capture that sense of boundless exploration in his writings.