The Man-Eater Saga The Hollow Gate: A Novel of Endings, the Soul-Eating Stone, and the Choice Ten Thousand Years in the Making, Book 5, (Paperback)

The Stone has begun to speak. <p>It speaks in the voice of whatever you have lost - a dead mother, a vanished father, the one person you could never save. To her, it speaks in the voice of the man with horns. She has carried it across a continent and a hundred years of habit, and now, at the end, it wants something. It has always wanted something. </p><p>The world has been emptied down to its oldest powers. One by one the rest have fallen, and what remains is the eldest thing of all: a teacher believed dead for nine centuries, the only being older than the woman who eats men to live. She has spent those nine hundred years on the wrong side of a sealed door, perfecting a single working - one that does not open the gate, but unmakes the beginning. Undo the founding, and every rule that holds the world together quietly ceases to have ever been true. </p><p>Everything is converging on a place that has been a name without a map for the length of this story. The Houses ride for it. The hunters ride for it. The horned man crosses a border and a whole country screams. And the boy who once had no power and no name walks beside her, changed beyond knowing - close enough now to the Stone that no one can say, anymore, whose side he will choose when the gate is opened. </p><p>She is dying. She knows it. And for the first time in ten thousand years, she wants to live. </p><p>This is where it ends. Where the cost of every working comes due at once, and the oldest question in the saga is finally answered: when nothing can be undone, what would you give to keep the one thing you were never supposed to love?</p>

• The Man-Eater Saga The Hollow Gate: A Novel of Endings, the Soul-Eating Stone, and the Choice Ten Thousand Years in the Making, Book 5, (Paperback)
• Author: Asif Shah
• ISBN: 9798181095144
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-11
• Page Count: 412