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NEW TRILOGY
THE DARKENING GATE TRILOGY
- The Name and the Key – AVAILABLE NOW. When thirteen-year-old Lily finds her mother’s corpse in the marshes, what happens to her afterward is only worse. In every reflective surface, her mother appears, telling Lily to “open the door.” Lily doesn’t know what this means, and her sanity is tested as she tries to help her mother’s spirit. This continues into young adulthood–when Lily is eighteen, her childhood friend Andresh returns from his time abroad and shares that he has been studying dark magic. He seems to know how to save Lily from her curse, but his own secrets may destroy them both.
- The Step and the Walk – COMING OCTOBER 13, 2026. Andresh chronicles his time abroad at university in his private journal, where he shares his deepest secrets–his discovery of alchemy, his dealings with demons, his newest crush (which threatens everything), and his desire to end death once and for all. It’s easy–just surrender your desire and walk through the Gate. Immortality awaits.
- The Fear and the Flame – CURRENTLY BEING DRAFTED. Andresh is prisoner at Nigredo Gate, a former shadow of himself. Lily, armed with Andresh’s journal and some magic of her own, will stop at nothing to save him, and to end the Magnum Opus once and for all.
NOW READING
Current fiction…
A story of one man’s attempt to survive under the sea in the wake of madness and chaos. The hit Korean novel finally available in English print!
Humanity’s hunger for resources has sent us where we were never meant to go—down into the crushing dark. The North Pacific International Undersea Station is a submerged labyrinth of labs, mining decks, and narrow living quarters where the sun never reaches.
Muhyeon, a dentist by trade, joins the station expecting routine work, but the eerie silence and the crew’s increasingly unstable behavior quickly prove him wrong. From quirky to unsettling, every encounter makes one truth impossible to ignore: the danger isn’t outside the station—it’s already here.
NOW READING
Current manga…
Creator
Sakuhiro
Publisher
Yen Press
“You paid for me, you know. Which means you can touch me however you want…”Akito Kanazawa—the burned-out, unappreciated office worker that he is—ain’t exactly livin’ the high life. At least, not until he stumbles upon a petite yokai in need of saving…and is rewarded with a trip to the luxurious brothel for supernaturals known as the House of Mist! There, he meets Suiren—a bewitching, crow-feathered tengu who serves the House’s many clients, including Akito himself. Bound to the House and spurned as a sinner, Suiren’s never had an easy life. But perhaps a fleeting chance at true love will finally give him the courage to forge his own destiny…
Kristina Elyse Butke 