Crimson Darkness Trilogy: Book 1 - The Gatekeeper
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The Gatekeeper follows the lives of two detectives, Coleske and Parker whose lives are changed forever when their two separate cases prove to be related and they soon find out an ancient horror has been released into the world. From there, each must take the path that fate has chosen and dare to fulfill their destinies.
"I heard a cry of despair from the skies. It was the sound of sorrow, a warning of sinister tidings. The tears of the ferryman do not fall for foolish reasons. He stood on his boat with his bony hands on his stuff and from the hollowness of his eyes came an unspeakable tragedy. His boat was empty with no souls, as if they had all fled leaving their golden coins behind. It was a carpet of glitter untended, and the flow of Styx went as slow as the journey to the underworld itself, and then it was frozen."
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