The Hollow Gate: A Novel of Endings, the Soul-Eating Stone, and the Choice Ten Thousand Years in the Making
Paperback
Series: The Man-Eater Saga, Book 5
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ISBN13: 9798181095144
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Stone has begun to speak. It speaks in the voice of whatever you have lost - a dead mother, a vanished father, the one person you could never save. To her, it speaks in the voice of the man with horns. She has carried it across a continent and a hundred years of habit, and now, at the end, it wants something. It has always wanted something. The world has been emptied down to its oldest powers. One by one the rest have fallen, and what remains is the eldest thing of all: a teacher believed dead for nine centuries, the only being older than the woman who eats men to live. She has spent those nine hundred years on the wrong side of a sealed door, perfecting a single working - one that does not open the gate, but unmakes the beginning. Undo the founding, and every rule that holds the world together quietly ceases to have ever been true. Everything is converging on a place that has been a name without a map for the length of this story. The Houses ride for it. The hunters ride for it. The horned man crosses a border and a whole country screams. And the boy who once had no power and no name walks beside her, changed beyond knowing - close enough now to the Stone that no one can say, anymore, whose side he will choose when the gate is opened. She is dying. She knows it. And for the first time in ten thousand years, she wants to live. This is where it ends. Where the cost of every working comes due at once, and the oldest question in the saga is finally answered: when nothing can be undone, what would you give to keep the one thing you were never supposed to love?
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