Shadow Gate (100 page)

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Freda Warrington

Normally indistinguishable from humans, the Aetherials return home every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, when the Gatekeeper throws open all gates to the Otherworld. This time, though, something has gone wrong. The Gatekeeper has sealed the gates, warning of a great danger lurking in the realm beyond them. The Aetherial community is outraged. What will become of them, deprived of the home realm from which their essential life force flows?

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