Keepers of the North Gate · Book Six · The Finale
Book 6 of the Keepers of the North Gate. A completed six-book found-family fantasy saga.
A Keeping of Roads
Every light comes home.
It arrives in June, written in frost that will not melt: the roll of the unrelieved. Every keeping in all the worlds where no relief ever came. An ice road with its street of lit cairns. A fire in a killing pass. A well in a white waste. The forgotten, at the edge of everything. And at the bottom of the last road, the keeper of everyone.
The family reads the roll at the kitchen table and votes the way it has always voted: all aye, one abstention (asleep, aged two, excused).
Five roads. One year. Everything they have. A last wedding at the fence, a ferryman's crossing, and the answer to the question beneath all six books: who keeps the keepers?
The road home was always open. Somebody was always coming.
