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The Threshold is a dark, atmospheric fantasy-horror novel about Nora Callahan, a 35-year-old widow still reeling from the loss of her husband. Tucked away in a quiet Appalachian town, Nora’s life has dulled into silence and routine — until the day she finds an impossible door standing alone in the forest behind her house.

Drawn by grief, curiosity, and the unsettling sense that her beloved cat, Hugo, knows more than he lets on, Nora steps through the threshold and into a crumbling, fog-laden pocket world where reality warps and memory tangles. What she finds on the other side challenges everything she understands about love, loss, and the quiet, haunting forces that shape a life.

Blending lyrical prose with eerie, character-driven tension, The Threshold explores the fragile intersections between magic and the mundane, and asks what we’re willing to risk — and who we’re willing to become — when faced with the impossible.