Chapter 26 - Shadows of the Gate

A festival is taking shape in the square—lanterns, painted paths, the smell of apples—and beneath all of it runs a colder current.

Behind a closed door, a conversation turns careful, then pointed, then unbearable. When the people you trusted stop meeting your eye, how do you prove you are who you've always been? Some rooms are hardest to leave not because of the lock, but because of who stands silent on the other side.

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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.

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