<![CDATA[Shadows of the Gate - A Fantasy Mystery Novel]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate The Gate keeps the monsters out. Inside it, the town of Humedell carries on — the shops, the festival, the gossip — as if the monstrous wilds beyond don't exist.

Namier has built a careful life here. A husband. Three children. A trade. And a past she will do anything to keep buried.

But when a death shakes the town and the answers don't add up, Namier finds herself edging closer to a truth that threatens to unravel everything — not just who killed a neighbor, but who she really is.

A serialized fantasy mystery novel set in the vast interconnected world of D.W. Sheppard — a world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, and nothing stays buried forever.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler. Written by D.W. Sheppard.

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]]> RSS.com 2026.428.112250 Wed, 20 May 2026 19:32:03 GMT en 45ca9360-7aa6-58b8-8010-79c887d90e80 https://media.rss.com/shadows-of-the-gate/20260425_070415_f22a01393724758ea0265c54ec3842b0.jpg Shadows of the Gate - A Fantasy Mystery Novel https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate yes Scott Sheppard 2026 D.W. Sheppard D.W. Sheppard false episodic podcast Portland, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97204, USA false <![CDATA[Chapter 10 - Shadows of the Gate]]> You can leave a life behind. You cannot stop it from remembering you.

Dawn arrives with a conversation that was always coming — the kind where love and hurt sit in the same sentence, and neither finishes. But the morning doesn't end there. Old competence has a weight to it, and some people refuse to let you pretend you've forgotten how to carry it.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2844383 88af7c04-fa6c-48a2-87c4-b4c255c57005 1922 full 1 1 11 11 false Wed, 20 May 2026 19:32:01 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 9 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Some walls hold back monsters. Some hold back the truth about who you are.

There's a particular silence that fills a house when trust fractures — not the silence of absence, but of someone choosing not to come closer. This chapter sits in that silence, in the unbearable weight of being seen for the first time by the people who thought they already knew you.

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Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2817778 42b8eb31-2da5-479a-87d7-ebc133aa184a 1100 full 1 1 10 10 false Tue, 12 May 2026 20:36:22 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 8 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Apricot jam and costume feathers and an afternoon that almost gets to be perfect.

Feathers and fabric and children's laughter — a day spent building something bright with your own hands and the help of people who showed up when you asked. It feels like winning. It feels like proof that the world can still be steered.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2804036 810615d6-05c1-494a-9e27-343d140d0076 1652 full 1 1 9 9 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:34 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 7 - Shadows of the Gate]]> There's a hollow spot in the room where something important used to be, yet the shape remains.

A house full of small mutinies — sugar raids, homework dodged, brothers at war over things that don't matter yet. But between the noise and the dust, a stillness settles in a handmade room, and something hardens. Some things are worth protecting not because they're yours, but because someone trusted you to carry them forward.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2804001 0d58eb1a-f740-4880-b7b5-1cced4add6e3 886 full 1 1 8 8 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:28 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 6 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Dust on the path, jam on a chin, and the stubborn gravity of a boy who won't be steered.

This chapter tastes like warm bread and exasperation — a sun-drenched day spent trying to build something for someone who hasn't yet learned to want it built. Underneath the laughter and the sticky fingers, a quieter question: how long can you keep shaping a life before the world starts shaping it for you?

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803994 7a2c6b83-ad17-4899-bab7-11cfc195cf20 1778 full 1 1 7 7 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:26 GMT <![CDATA[Chapter 5 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Clotheslines and wildflowers and the kind of silence that sits between two people who almost say too much.

This chapter opens like a window after a closed room — sunlit, full of children's voices and the easy rhythm of friendship. But underneath the warmth, two women carry very different versions of the same ache: the distance between the life you have and the one you thought you'd live.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803989 60ab5d69-e39a-4454-a472-c42d87e2437a 1874 full 1 1 6 6 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:25 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 4 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Fifteen years is a long time to hold your breath.

There's a particular kind of dread that comes not from enemies but from the people who love you most — the ones whose trust makes the truth feel impossible. This chapter hums with the tension of a life held together by careful omissions, and the slow realization that care alone may not be enough to keep it intact.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803983 2e7fecd3-b6c8-4b02-b5cc-fd2cdc78e435 1106 full 1 1 5 5 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:23 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 3 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Steady hands don't always mean a steady heart.

A closed room, the scratch of tools on wood, and the suffocating weight of being trusted with something you never volunteered for. This chapter tightens like a knot — the quiet kind, where every competent gesture risks unraveling years of careful silence. What you can do and what you dare to show are rarely the same thing.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803979 9bde4a54-11e4-4c3d-8fb9-ed188ae427c2 1572 full 1 1 4 4 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:21 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 2 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Some things stay hidden because you let them. Others, because you need them to.

The air in this chapter smells like pencil shavings and obligation — the quiet friction between the life you've built and the one you left behind. Somewhere between inventory lists and children's laughter, a question tightens like a knot: what do you owe a community that doesn't know what you're capable of?

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803976 5091166b-4d70-4049-8d8f-bee8acac36f9 1311 full 1 1 3 3 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:18 GMT false <![CDATA[Chapter 1 - Shadows of the Gate]]> Autumn sunlight on cobblestones, the rhythm of a busy shop, and the kind of warmth that makes you forget the world outside the city walls.

A family moves through an ordinary day — small joys, familiar frustrations, the comfort of routine. But the town is talking, and some conversations leave a chill that sunlight can't reach.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/shadows-of-the-gate/2803960 c393b5af-ec29-4476-91bf-ba198cfc1376 2394 full 1 1 2 2 false Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:14 GMT false <![CDATA[The Archivist's Preface - Shadows of the Gate]]> The line between myth and history is thinner than anyone wants to believe.

Some truths arrive uninvited — in the wrong handwriting, at the wrong hour, demanding a reckoning with everything you thought you understood. This is how my certainty crumbled, and what I built in its place.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, and safety is never guaranteed.

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