Keeper of the Gates

Lyra Verren is a quiet archivist in the border city of Anveris, cataloguing tomes no one reads. Then the Old Gate at the city’s heart wakes — and it demands a keeper.

The Gatekeepers have guarded the Nine Gates for a thousand years, ensuring the realms beyond never bleed into the mortal world. But the last of them fell silent a century ago, and the bloodlines are all but spent.

Now Lyra must learn the language of seals and thresholds before the first gate breaks open. And something on the other side is already watching.