It's 1918, and Matty returns home to the family farm from the trenches only to find his brother Arthur dying of an unknown illness. The local doctor thinks cancer, but Matty becomes convinced it's connected to the mysterious books his brother left strewn around the house. Rob knows something other than just Arthur's death is bothering Matty. He's know him for years and been in love with him just as long. And when he finds something that looks like a gate, a glowing, terrifying doorway to the unknown, it all starts to fall in to place. Matty's looking sicker and sicker in the same way Arthur did. What is Rob prepared to sacrifice to cure him? The answer is in the esoteric books ... and with the mysterious Lin of the Frem, who lives beyond the gate to nowhere. It's taken Matty and Rob more than a decade to admit they have feelings for each other and they are determined that neither social expectations or magical illness will part them now.

Inheritance of Shadows

He realised he was pushing the energy into the mythical border Webber had spoken of when a sheet of something like heat haze slowly appeared and started to glow. He lay on the floor unable to move and watched the shimmering haze grow from a small, almost invisible patch to a circle the size of a church doorway. As his struggle to contain the energy flowing into him from Webber continued, as the power flowed through him and out again, the patch grew brighter and brighter and brighter. Webber started to pull back from him and Marchant fought it. He wasn’t going to let Webber drain him like that again. He pulled and tugged sharply, and physically rolled away from Webber’s pull, toward the light


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