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

“Come on, man. Hurry up! Unless you want him to die?”


Rob shook himself at that and stepped forward. “I don’t want him to die,” he said, almost to himself.


“Well then. Let’s get a chivvy on!”


THE TROUBLE WITH DRMarks, her patients sometimes said, was that once you invited her in, it was almost impossible to get rid of her. She had an extremely strong interest in the wellbeing of people who had asked for her help and she didn’t simply let her cases drop willy-nilly once she’d become involved in them.


This proved to be true in all instances.


“Let’s get him up to the house then, chaps,” she said, as she tied off the sutures she’d used to close the neat, deep, three-inch gash Rob had sliced into the side of Marchand’s neck.


Chapter 36