For years, Kean has spent endless winter nights and nightless summer days managing the affairs and feeding the polar-grizzly hybrid bears of Hotel Splendide, a refuge in the Northwest passage against the climate and political chaos raging across the rest of the warming world. But when Riordain and his scientific team set up a research camp nearby to study the strange voices coming through the aurora borealis, the dark secrets of the hotel's founders begin to haunt its rooms and, worse, draw the murderous attention of the Svalbard Republic.
What's really under the hotel? And what -- or who-- is really beyond the Aurora?
Release date: 10 November, 2026 (available for pre-order now)
For years, Kean has spent endless winter nights and nightless summer days managing the affairs and feeding the polar-grizzly hybrid bears of Hotel Splendide, a refuge in the Northwest passage against the climate and political chaos raging across the rest of the warming world. But when Riordain and his scientific team set up a research camp nearby to study the strange voices coming through the aurora borealis, the dark secrets of the hotel's founders begin to haunt its rooms and, worse, draw the murderous attention of the Svalbard Republic.
What's really under the hotel? And what -- or who-- is really beyond the Aurora?
Release date: 10 November, 2026 (available for pre-order now)
Michael Routery is a writer, poet, and educator who has published poetry and non-fiction in a wide variety of places. He got an MFA in Writing and Consciousness at New College in San Francisco, and then became a druid. While living in the tropics for a few years, he dreamed of the Far North. Born and raised in California, he now lives in Portland, Oregon with his husband, cats, and a multitude of plants and books.
