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The Kingdoms Beyond Death: The Mother Of Doors
Paperback
Series: The Kingdoms Beyond Death, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 682
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Months after Tavian Grey shattered the ancient laws governing death, Bellweather is still learning how to live with the consequences.
The dead may now keep their names. The roads beyond the River Veil no longer belong to kings, ferrymen, or gods. Every soul must be recognized before it can cross.
But birth remains unchanged.
No one asks a consciousness whether it wishes to enter a body, inherit a bloodline, endure a lifetime, or surrender every memory of what it was before.
Now something beneath the First World has noticed.
Pregnant women begin dreaming of the same black shore. Unborn children speak through their mothers in voices older than humanity. Infants arrive carrying memories that do not belong to them. Others are born breathing-but empty.
Then every birth in Bellweather stops.
At the center of the crisis stands the mysterious Mother of Doors, the primordial intelligence that once guided consciousness into physical form. She believes incarnation has become an act of coercion, forcing souls into suffering without knowledge or consent.
Her solution is terrifyingly simple:
No soul will enter life again until it chooses.
As humanity faces a future without children, countless unrealized lives begin knocking from the other side. Some are frightened. Some are desperate.
And some are willing to steal the bodies of the living.
To reopen the doors of birth, Tavian must descend into a realm older than death-a world of abandoned names, impossible children, and lives that were never allowed to begin. But the Mother remembers Tavian from before he was human, and she is offering him a place beside her: the power to decide which lives may enter the world.
With Elara's returned body becoming a doorway, Eren questioning whether a life requires birth, and Bellweather filling with people who remember futures they never lived, Tavian must confront a question no god has ever answered:
How can anyone choose life before life has taught them how to choose?
Darkly beautiful, emotionally powerful, and filled with mystery, danger, humor, and breathtaking adventure, The Mother of Doors expands The Kingdoms Beyond Death into a haunting exploration of identity, incarnation, free will, and what it truly means to enter the world.
Some doors lead beyond death.
The oldest one opens before birth.
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