"e;If you're so obsessed with the truth, you need to look a little closer to home."e; Kyer learns a shocking truth—her "e;Guardian"e; is none other than Golgathaur, lieutenant to Dregor himself.Kyer must use her newfound magical talent, Gating, to enter Golgathaur's realm and try to rescue the one person who holds the key to her identity: her mother. But Golgathaur reveals a disturbing fact that will change her life, and the lives of those she holds most dear. Even as Kyer is thunderstruck by the discovery of yet another magic she didn't know she possessed, he demands an impossible choice.She is forced to escape without her mother, and Golgathaur sets up a magical device, which blocks her return. Now, Kyer's motivation is agonizingly interconnected with Golgathaur's: each needs the other alive to get what they want.Worst of all, Kyer learns the horrific reality behind the Cymrion and dark elves' need to flee Rydris, and she now realizes she is in grave danger.Kyer and the company must journey to carry out a heartbreaking deed in order to save her mother, to connect Kyer with the truth of her past, and to save Rydris from a terrible fate.Even those who have already fled are in peril. Get the penultimate book in the Gatekeeper fantasy trilogy-in-five-parts today.And don't miss the final book in the series, Gatekeeper's Revelation, coming soon. "e;Gatekeeper's Crucible introduced me to the fantasy series I didn't know I sorely needed. With rich, well-woven world building, resilient heroes, and wretched villains, Wallace had me under her spell from the first word to the last."e;~ Cait Gordon, award-winning co-editor of Nothing Without Us Too and author of Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain
