Broken Gates

Anisha can barely cast the simplest of spells—her magic flickers, stutters, and often fails. So she’s more than a little shocked when she accidentally summons a full-fledgedhumanfrom the long-lost and supposedly unreachable afterlife of his kind.

Kab was a proud Roclycian soldier, trained from birth to fight, die, and be reborn in eternal service to Verden’s Unification. For him, death was never the end—just the next step toward peace. But when he stumbles upon a frightened girl in the Realm of the Dead, a single moment of misplaced compassion changes everything. Caught in the path of her panicked spell, Kab is torn from the Unification Cycle and bound to her.

Now alive again—but in the wrong world—Kab finds himself stranded in a fractured land of bickering nobles, monsters, and unstable magic. And if dying was once a promise of purpose... now it’s a permanent end.

Forced to keep Kab’s identity a secret or face execution for summoning magic long considered forbidden, he and Anisha must work together to survive—and find a way to send him home. Because if Kab dies here, he won’t return to Verden. He’ll be lost forever.