Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records

The Silverton Estate Duology, Book TwoThrough the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records, by Islay CorwinElizabeth Silverton, a medieval scholar and botanist from Wales, bequeathed her New England botanical preserve, a sprawling estate and its Tudor manor, medieval gardens, and ancient cedar groves, to the university. Resident Curator Dr. Sarah Caldwell, while raising her adopted daughter, Stella, on the Estate, has documented bewildering botanical findings and Stella's troubling encounters with plants and reflections. When Stella's troubling threshold abilities heighten, she presses Sarah about her origins. At thirteen, she learns that Sarah has concealed her birth records, and her sense of betrayal is worsened when her three trusted fae guardians reveal they were involved in her arrival on the Estate. Her mirror-sight is both a gift and a liability that runs in her maternal bloodline.When Sarah purchases Elizabeth's long-derelict private cottage, Stella, now twenty-one, uncovers letters in ladies' Victorian script, a strange botanical cipher, and a confession. The evidence of a lost sibling compels Stella to a reckoning: Had Elizabeth and the fae selected her for rescue while abandoning others? What was the cost of her own survival, and what silence surrounds those who were not chosen?Through the Iron Gate is a botanical gothic mystery and an archival elegy, a literary novella about identity, severed lineage, and the dangerous grace of stories told to protect what cannot be undone.For readers of Diane Setterfield, Neil Gaiman, and the gothic tradition of the Brontës and Daphne du Maurier.