The Crimson Gateway
(2026)(The second book in the Shadowblood Chronicles series)
A novel by Rowan Wren
Prince Jael of the Severin opened the Crimson Gateway—and learned too late that some doors do not close the way they should.
Trapped on his own world, Jael cannot return to Earth, nor can any of his kind. The Gateway now runs only one way, spilling human migrants into the valleys of Caldaen by the wagonload. Camps burn through the night. Villages grow resentful. Rebels are remembered as martyrs. And every new arrival is another weight on a realm already fractured by fire and loss.
Jael mourns his mother and youngest sister, killed because of the breach he forced open. Though he can still reach his lovers, Meg and Rose, through the Etherweb—where desire and loyalty bind them across worlds—their touch is no longer flesh. Power answers him. Comfort does not.
As courts argue and armies prepare, a deeper threat emerges. Some humans cannot be seen by Severin senses at all—mystics, seers, and ascetics whose presence sickens his kind. One such woman now lives alone in a tower of his castle, invisible, isolated, and dangerous in ways Jael does not yet understand.
When the Sisters of the Moons offer a forbidden rite that could change Severin perception itself, Jael must decide whether altering his people is salvation—or the first step toward losing what they once were. All the while, the mysterious witch still watches the open way, waiting for the moment to turn a single mistake into a final closure.
Caught between duty, grief, power, and desire, Jael must rule a wounded world while the Crimson Gateway continues to reshape it—whether he is ready or not.
The second book in a dark supernatural fantasy series with explicit romantic content for men, blending power, consequence, and otherworldly desire across medieval Caldaen and modern Earth.
Genre: Fantasy
Trapped on his own world, Jael cannot return to Earth, nor can any of his kind. The Gateway now runs only one way, spilling human migrants into the valleys of Caldaen by the wagonload. Camps burn through the night. Villages grow resentful. Rebels are remembered as martyrs. And every new arrival is another weight on a realm already fractured by fire and loss.
Jael mourns his mother and youngest sister, killed because of the breach he forced open. Though he can still reach his lovers, Meg and Rose, through the Etherweb—where desire and loyalty bind them across worlds—their touch is no longer flesh. Power answers him. Comfort does not.
As courts argue and armies prepare, a deeper threat emerges. Some humans cannot be seen by Severin senses at all—mystics, seers, and ascetics whose presence sickens his kind. One such woman now lives alone in a tower of his castle, invisible, isolated, and dangerous in ways Jael does not yet understand.
When the Sisters of the Moons offer a forbidden rite that could change Severin perception itself, Jael must decide whether altering his people is salvation—or the first step toward losing what they once were. All the while, the mysterious witch still watches the open way, waiting for the moment to turn a single mistake into a final closure.
Caught between duty, grief, power, and desire, Jael must rule a wounded world while the Crimson Gateway continues to reshape it—whether he is ready or not.
The second book in a dark supernatural fantasy series with explicit romantic content for men, blending power, consequence, and otherworldly desire across medieval Caldaen and modern Earth.
Genre: Fantasy