{"product_id":"love-beneath-the-ice-leonardo-lopes-9798190128505","title":"Love Beneath the Ice - The Surface War - Book Six: A Romance Forged in the Hidden Heart of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eLOVE BENEATH THE ICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Six-Book Science-Fiction Romance Series\u003cp\u003eBeneath the Antarctic ice, a civilization has survived in secrecy for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAethara is a world without sky-a hidden city sustained by thermal rivers, ancient Vaelorin technology, and laws created to protect its people from discovery. For centuries, its existence has remained unknown to the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil Elias Calder finds it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as an impossible discovery becomes a journey of love, belonging, fatherhood, sacrifice, and divided loyalty. Elias finds a new life beneath the ice with Elyra Vael, a woman born into the ruling bloodline of a civilization that was never meant to be found. Together, they build a family caught between two worlds-and between the political systems determined to control them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut discovery has consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the surface learns that Aethara exists, scientific curiosity becomes strategic ambition. Humanitarian concern becomes intervention. Ancient secrets become weapons. The White Gate that connects both civilizations becomes the center of a conflict over territory, biology, technology, and the right of one world to determine the future of another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the struggle are Elias and Elyra's children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaelan is born into a system that expects him to inherit power he never requested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiora possesses an extraordinary connection to the living intelligence beneath Aethara-a gift others may value more than her freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs old monarchies collapse, armies descend, and the buried First Garden begins to awaken, the family must decide what love truly requires when survival itself threatens to turn people into possessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning six emotionally charged novels, \u003cb\u003eLOVE BENEATH THE ICE\u003c\/b\u003e is an epic science-fiction romance about a hidden civilization, forbidden discovery, political power, parental love, environmental intelligence, and the boundaries no government-or family-has the right to cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause belonging does not mean ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProtection does not mean control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd no world possesses the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complete series: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK ONE - THE LIGHT BELOW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK TWO - THE WORLD HE CHOOSES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK THREE - A WORLD WITHOUT SKY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK FOUR - THE ASCENT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK FIVE - THE WORLD ABOVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK SIX - THE SURFACE WAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonardo Lopes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190128505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Leonardo Lopes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666067198207,"sku":"9798190128505","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28976057-fccc-489c-95b4-7379f82a3272.jpg?v=1792015437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-beneath-the-ice-leonardo-lopes-9798190128505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}