"If you're so obsessed with the truth, you need to look a little closer to home."

Kyer learns a shocking truth -- her "Guardian" is none other than Golgathaur, lieutenant to Dregor himself.

Now, to rescue the one person who holds the key to her identity, Kyer must use her newfound magical talent to enter the realm of her enemy, alone. There, Golgathaur reveals something that will change not only her life, but the lives of those whom she holds most dear. He demands an impossible choice, even as Kyer is thunderstruck by yet another magical discovery.

Realizing that her motivations are agonizingly interconnected with her enemy leads to an inconvenient truth: each needs the other alive to achieve their goals. Worse, one she thought she could trust is hiding the most horrific secret of all.

Kyer and the company soon find themselves on a journey to carry out a heartbreaking deed in order to finally connect Kyer with her past, and to save Rydris from a terrible fate.

Even those who have already fled are in peril.

Preorder the electrifying penultimate book in the Gatekeeper fantasy trilogy-in-five-parts today.

"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."

~ Cait Gordon, award-winning co-editor of Nothing Without Us Too and author of Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

• We started tracking this book on February 16, 2026.
• The current price of this book is $0.99 last checked 9 minutes ago.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyEpic

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 449 Pages
• File Size: 35 KB