Key To The Shadows (The Gatekeepers) Hardcover – Large Print, March 23, 2026

Key to the Shadows: Villain Edition HardcoverNew cover designAll-new chapter image headers that pull you deeper into the shadowsSpecially formatted chapter updatesExclusive image inserts that hint at what’s really happening behind the scenes---Help Wanted. Waitress. Immediate start. Loft apartment included.The ad was supposed to save my life. One overheard phone call in my father’s office sent me running from the only world I’d ever known—straight into a diner job in the isolated Louisiana town ofLa Croix Perdue.The problem? The last waitress disappeared without a trace a week ago.But even an unsolved mystery feels safer than the past I’m running from.Then I metLandry Lucian,Landry is all quiet power and possessive intensity.A man who watches everything.A man who doesn’t let go of what he claims.Landry and his fellow Gatekeepers have protected this town for years, delivering their own brand of shadow‑born justice to keep La Croix Perdue safe.I wasn’t supposed to matter to him.But the longer I stay, the more my own secrets begin to surface—secrets I didn’t even know I was carrying.And when the truth finally cracks open, the Gatekeepers realize the missing waitress is only the first thread in something far darker.Now I’m caught between the past I fled, the man who would burn the world to protect me, and a mystery that threatens to swallow La Croix Perdue whole.And if that wasn’t enough, a mysterious local radio station,the only one that La Croix Perdue can get signal for,has started airing all the town’s tea—especially the dirt on Mayor Lucian and his…tendencies.A steamy small‑town romance featuring a possessive alpha mayor, a woman on the run, found‑family protectors, and a chilling mystery that ignites the first spark of a much larger conspiracy. Read more