THE ARCHIVIST AND THE UNRAVELER: A Thresholds Novella
Eli Black
Moth is an Unraveler—one of the rarest demons in the afterlife, tasked with the sacred work of unmaking things that are too broken to continue. For four hundred years, he's traveled alone through the nothing between worlds, gently ending corrupted doors and freeing the souls trapped within.
He's good at his work. Careful. Precise.
He's also convinced he's a monster.
When he arrives at a dying archive to investigate a string of mysteriously corrupted doors, he finds Seren—an Archivist drowning in the voices of millions of souls, barely holding together under the weight of every story that's ever passed through his crossing. Seren should be calm, controlled, the perfect keeper of memory.
Instead, he's breaking apart. And he's terrified he's next to be corrupted.
Together, they begin to hunt for answers. What's destroying doors across the afterlife? Why are souls dying permanently instead of passing through? And why does every corrupted threshold bear the same signature—rage and grief twisted into mathematical poison?
The answer is worse than either of them someone is weaponizing their pain. Someone who lost everything and decided the entire system should burn.
To stop them, Moth will have to trust that his power to unmake doesn't make him monstrous. Seren will have to believe that being "too much" can be exactly enough. And both will have to risk the one thing they've avoided for connection.
Because some doors need to be destroyed to be remade. And some endings are really beginnings.
A queer fantasy romance about finding purpose in destruction, being loved for who you are instead of who you should be, and the courage it takes to trust someone with your sharpest edges.
Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and This Is How You Lose the Time War.
Book 2 in the Thresholds series — While this story stands alone, readers who loved Book 1 will enjoy returning to this world and meeting beloved characters again.
Content Themes of grief, trauma, feeling "too much" or monstrous. Fade-to-black intimate scenes. Hopeful ending.
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