N. S. Streets: The Doorway, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The forest swallows her on the third day. Yara was a midwife's apprentice. She stood between life and death every day, helping people cross from one state to another. She thought that was what she was for. Then a man came to a birthing room with darkness in his eyes, and Yara discovered she could push people in the other direction too. Now she walks into the deep forest with blood on her hands, following the stories she grew up on. Don't stray from the path. Don't look for the house on chicken legs. Don't seek the witch who eats people, who boils their bones for soup, who decorates her fence with their skulls. She's counting on that last part. Because Yara isn't looking for power. She isn't trying to pass through to somewhere else. She wants to stay. She wants to learn what she is-this creature with violence coiled inside her like a second spine. She wants to become what Baba Yaga is: not a monster, not a test, but a threshold. A doorway. A space between states where the lost and the seeking come to be transformed. Three tasks. That's how it works. Pass them, and she can stay. Fail them, and the witch eats her. But the tasks are only the beginning. What follows is a century of holding doors open-for the desperate and the dangerous, for ghosts who won't cross over and children who need saving, for the dying and the lost and the ones who don't know what they're becoming until they're already changed. THE DOORWAY is a dark fairy tale about violence and guardianship. About the women who walk into the forest and become the thing the forest feared. About learning to hold space for transformation without being consumed by what passes through. About the difference between keeping something safe and becoming the safety itself. Some doors only open one way. CONTENT ADVISORY: This book contains violence, murder, implied sexual assault (prevented), references to domestic abuse, and death. Intended for adult readers.