ALL THE WORLDS

A COMPLETE GENERATIONAL GOTHIC FANTASY SERIES

The Veilkeepers

The veil never closes on its own.

One bloodline. A century of ghosts, bargains, and women who hear what others cannot.

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BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

The dead are louder than the living.

Follow the Leclair–Harrow–Ashworth bloodline through a century of hauntings and hard choices. In this world, the boundary between life and death is as thin as a shadow.

Begin with Death Comes Knocking. Then read the free prequel The Woman Who Refused Death to discover where Mill Brook's haunting began, before continuing through the connected novels and novella.

  • Generational saga
  • Ghosts
  • Family legacy
  • Completed series

THE READING PATH

The books in order.

Read Death Comes Knocking first, then the complete prequel The Woman Who Refused Death for free here. Continue through the novella and later novels in this order.

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    Death Comes Knocking

    Book one · Begin here

  2. Cover of The Woman Who Refused Death by Kate Seger
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    The Woman Who Refused Death

    Free prequel · Read after book one

    Read the full prequel free
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    The Oathbound Line

    Companion novella

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    Death Comes Calling

    Continue the series

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    Death Comes Quietly

    Series finale

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BEFORE YOU READ

Find your next dark world.

Death Comes Knocking

Story elements
A mother’s bargain with death, ghosts, and a family legacy.
Who you’ll meet
Florence Harrow is a widowed mother who can hear the dead; her new work draws her into the world of reapers.
Where and when
Mill Brook, Massachusetts, in the aftermath of the First World War.
What’s at stake
Protecting her family draws Florence into an obligation to the dead, while the living fear what she can do.
Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Child death, suicide by poisoning, epidemic illness, religious persecution, mob violence, and a house fire.

The Woman Who Refused Death

Story elements
Ghosts, a woman who hears the dead, and the beginnings of a family’s haunting.
Who you’ll meet
Adelaide Hartford hears the dead before Florence Harrow’s story begins.
Where and when
Mill Brook, Massachusetts, beginning in 1902.
What’s at stake
Adelaide must decide how to answer the dead in a town where being seen carries a cost.
Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Death, grief, ghosts, and the aftermath of war.

The Oathbound Line

Story elements
An oath-bound protector and a family legacy spanning generations.
Who you’ll meet
Phenex, designated M-17, is a reaper bound to protect the Threadwell family’s firstborn daughters.
Where and when
Across generations of the Threadwell family, in the supernatural world of The Veilkeepers.
What’s at stake
A promise ties the reaper to daughters who face danger, loss, and the consequences of an unfinished oath.
Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Deaths of children and adults, fatal accidents, fire, illness, wartime violence, pregnancy loss, grief, and an on-page suicide attempt. Read after Death Comes Knocking: this companion reveals part of that novel’s ending.

Death Comes Calling

Story elements
An inherited gift, ghosts, and the struggle for an ordinary life.
Who you’ll meet
Mary Harrow carries the legacy of Florence’s bargain into her own life.
Where and when
New York during the Great Depression, with the haunting of Mill Brook still close.
What’s at stake
Mary wants an ordinary life, but the dead and her family’s obligations demand choices about what she owes them.
Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Grief, death, poverty, and supernatural haunting.

Death Comes Quietly

Story elements
An inherited supernatural gift, a woman fighting to be believed, and a generational reckoning.
Who you’ll meet
Kassandra’s gift is real within this world; the fictional Halloway Institute treats her experience as something to control.
Where and when
New York in 1964 and the supernatural world of The Veilkeepers.
What’s at stake
Kassandra must reclaim her account of her own experience while facing an institution that values obedience over belief.
Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Bereavement, institutional control, harmful fictional psychiatric experiments, and trauma. Halloway’s diagnosis and supernatural machine are inventions, not clinical information.

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