The Aurelian Paragon

Oxygen is killing me. My mother is a stranger. My heritage is a death sentence.

John has spent his life as an outsider, plagued by strange symptoms and impossible blue hair that makes him a target. But the isolation was never an accident—it was a shield. When a near-fatal accident shatters his carefully curated anonymity, John is thrust into a secret war hidden in the shadows of the city.

He isn't just an outcast; he is an Aurelian, a relic of a dying dimension.

Now, trapped in a world where every breath of air is a slow-acting poison and haunted by forces he is only beginning to understand, John must navigate a treacherous web of family secrets and inter-dimensional politics. His allies are a fractured resistance: the brilliant scientist who abandoned him, his sister, his loyal friend Sam, and a band of other teenagers who share the same dangerous secret—and the same ticking clock.

To save his home-world, he must first survive this one. But with his biology failing and the "Burn" consuming his very core, John’s biggest enemy might just be himself.