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Shadows of the Gate - A Fantasy Mystery Novel

Shadows of the Gate - A Fantasy Mystery Novel

by D.W. Sheppard

Season 1

Chapter 23 - Shadows of the Gate

Some mornings the whole house feels like something you've already broken, and no amount of cold tea will warm it back. A day of small failures — unwashed dishes, sulking children, a silence you can't apologize your way out of — grinds on under a sky that keeps spitting rain. But exhaustion has a way of dulling the senses right before the ground gives way. What do you owe the people who trusted you, and how far does the reckoning reach? — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 22 - Shadows of the Gate

Some dread you chase; some you carry home in your own two hands. A rattling wagon, a throat pulled too tight to speak, a hand gripped like a lifeline against a fear too ugly to name aloud. But suspicion is a greedy thing, and while it holds you, the people who trusted you to simply be there are learning what your absence costs. What do we owe the ones who counted on us—and how late do we notice we've failed them? — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 21 - Shadows of the Gate

A bright, ordinary afternoon has no business feeling this much like a held breath. Some errands are just errands—until the trust you'd stake your children's lives on starts to curdle into something you can't unthink. What do you owe the people who've always kept you safe? And how much of the terror waits out in the quiet fields, and how much is the shape your own mind keeps circling back to? — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 20 - Shadows of the Gate

A busy shop, a friend's baby, the easy warmth of a small town at work—and underneath it, a certainty quietly coming loose. There is a particular comfort in believing that whatever went wrong was done by a stranger, someone already gone, someone you'll never have to pass on the street. This chapter lives in the moment that comfort thins—where ordinary errands and a mother's divided attention can't quite drown out the question of who, exactly, you've been standing beside all along. How well do you really know the people who trust you? — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 19 - Shadows of the Gate

A secret you thought was buried has a way of surfacing at the worst possible table, in the worst possible voice. The afternoon light is already lowering, kitchen warmth pressing against old grief, and every careful word feels like a coin spent against someone who has decided not to forgive. What do you owe the people who love you when the truth you kept was meant to protect them? Some wounds don't want tending. They want blood. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 18 - Shadows of the Gate

Some certainties don’t hold up to scrutiny, no matter how firm your convictions. Trust becomes a fragile thing when suspicion finds a foothold. In this chapter, the weight of what we believe about the people closest to us meets the unsettling possibility that belief isn't enough. Old grief walks alongside new doubt, and the ground underfoot feels less steady than it did before. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 17 - Shadows of the Gate

Why is it that some doors without locks are harder to open than the ones with them? Pride has a way of standing between people and the things they need to protect. In this chapter, the weight of what's at stake presses against the immovable wall of someone who refuses to be questioned — and the frustration of knowing that politeness may cost more than it buys. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 16 - Shadows of the Gate

Chamomile and blackberry ride the autumn wind, but the air between two people carries something sharper. Some truths survive burial. They wait in the bones, patient as stone, until someone who remembers you — really remembers — refuses to let you look away. This is a chapter about the cost of hiding what you are, and what it takes to stop. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 15 - Shadows of the Gate

Some boundaries hold. Others only look like they do. Old fears and older instincts collide as familiar protections reveal themselves to be thinner than anyone realized. There is tenderness here — quick hands, held breath, the awkwardness of caring too much in front of the wrong audience — but beneath it, a quiet dread is taking root. Something has been wrong for a long time, and no one asked the right questions. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

Chapter 14 - Shadows of the gate

The morning began with the smell of spiced buns and the careful armor of a favorite dress — and ended somewhere she swore she'd never go. Secrets have a half-life. The warmth of mended trust gives way to the slow, sickening realization that careful plans are unraveling faster than they can be stitched back together — and the only path forward leads toward the one place that holds too many memories. — Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed. Support the show: Grab the full novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNBQWZM Stream sats or boost on Fountain.fm to support more episodes Leave a rating or review to help new listeners find the series New episodes every Tuesday.

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