When 17-year-old soulwalker Kamai’s mother is killed and her life upended, Kamai gives in to the temptation to open the black door that always appears whenever she walks through others’ souls.
Publisher’s description:
Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers—like Kamai and her mother—can journey into other people’s souls while they sleep.
But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never, ever open it.
When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered from the other side. And when tragedy strikes, Kamai does the unthinkable: she opens the door.
A.M. Strickland’s imaginative dark fantasy features court intrigue and romance, a main character coming to terms with her asexuality, and twists and turns as a seductive mystery unfolds that endangers not just Kamai’s own soul, but the entire kingdom.
Representation: asexual MC; trans, queer, and ace side characters.
Ownvoices: per the author, “Just so it’s loud and clear: BEYOND THE BLACK DOOR features a demi-biromantic asexual main character, ace romance with an ace LI, and other queer side characters. The book is #ownvoices in that I am gray-biromantic ace (among other things).”