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The Fifth Gatekeeper

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On the night Ian buries his father, a girl steps out of the sea carrying his keys — and a warning: his father did not die, he sealed something from the inside. Beneath the old harbor city of Windgate lies the Bureau of Thresholds, where every supernatural incident must be written before dawn or be swallowed by Erasure — a white, hungry void that feeds on forgotten truths, stolen names, and the voices of the dead. Now forced to inherit his father’s ledger, Ian becomes the new keeper of the Fifth Gate, recording strange nightly breaches from neighboring worlds of salt, shadows, clocks, and living names. Each case seems self-contained. Each one demands a personal price. And each one drags him closer to the same impossible question: Did his father save the world by sealing the Fifth Gate… or become part of what is trying to open it?
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