Beyond the Black Door

Kamai is a soulwalker. Like her mother, she can enter other people's souls while they sleep, and what she finds there varies widely: some souls are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons.

Wherever she goes, one thing waits for her. A black door follows her into every soul she visits. Her mother has warned her never to open it. When Kamai touches it, the wood is warm and beats like a pulse, and when she presses her ear to it, a voice on the other side whispers her own name.

Then tragedy strikes, and Kamai does what she was forbidden to do: she opens the door. A mystery unfolds from that choice, with twists that put her own soul at risk and threaten the whole kingdom.

This is a young adult dark fantasy with court intrigue and a romance. Kamai also comes to terms with her asexuality over the course of the story. The tone is eerie and seductive, and the plot is built around a puzzle that keeps turning.