Yara was a midwife's apprentice. She stood between life and death every day, helping people cross from one to the other.

Then she killed a man-a man who deserved it, who was waiting to hurt a woman too weak to fight back. And she discovered she could push people the other direction too.

Now she walks into the deep forest, seeking the witch who lives in a house on chicken legs. Not to pass through. Not to steal power or beg for magic. She wants to stay. She wants to learn how to hold the violence inside her without becoming something that destroys everything it touches.

Baba Yaga has been alone for three hundred years. She is tired of being a doorway. Tired of being a test. Tired of watching everyone who enters either pass through or die.

Maybe she's tired of being alone.

THE DOORWAY is a dark fairy tale about thresholds-the ones we cross, the ones we guard, and the ones we become.