Keepers of the North Gate · Book One
Book 1 of the Keepers of the North Gate. A completed six-book found-family fantasy saga.
A Balance of Shadows
Some gates are kept. Some gates keep you.
Rowan Parker arrives in the valley with everything she owns in one car and a grief she can't put down. Her grandmother's farmhouse is waiting. So, it turns out, is the fence. Because in this valley, the fence listens.
Here, neighbors say a count at dusk. All safe, all fed. And the dark answers politely. Frost writes on the shop glass in a small, precise hand. And at the north gate of everything stands a keeping older than the county, waiting for someone willing to stay.
Rowan came here to bury her old life. Instead she finds a professor who annotates everything except his own heart, a town that refuses on principle to let anyone be alone, and a door in the world that only opens for the brokenhearted.
The grief is the price. The joy is the point.
