This is Ashavan Doyon talking about my new release, The Tendire Gate.

First of all, thanks to Dani and all the crew at Love Bytes Reviews for letting me take a moment to talk to you all about this story. With the five year celebration going on, I know they’ve been busy!

The Tendire Gate isn’t what most folks are expecting when they pick up a romance. And it’s not just the setting—sci-fi/space opera, apocalyptic dystopia—but the romance itself that’s a little different.

Elijah, our hero, is the last keeper. The world didn’t just crumble. People saw that the world was going to fall apart. They saw it and they planned and they did something.

That something was the gate. Ten pairs of people, tied together by a love strong enough to be the anchor for a gate across the universe. A keeper, and a guardian.

The guardians fled the world before it crumbled. They fled and they found a new one. And because the keepers stayed, each guardian could create a gate that allowed their keeper to bring people through.

It wasn’t a perfect plan. The keepers were left behind on a world that was crumbling, with a ruthless government in control—the Imperium—that wanted nothing more than to harvest anyone healthy to preserve the lives of the very people that had destroyed everything. For them to discover the gate would be disaster.

But the keepers remained, each one in secret, hidden in a bunker deep beneath the earth while good men and women gathered survivors and brought them to the keepers to shepherd through the gate.

It was a hasty plan, and imperfectly executed. One by one the secret bunkers fell. Until at last only one lonely keeper remained, determined to shepherd the last of the survivors through.

And across the universe, his guardian lives in fear that DIRE station ten will fall, and with it the last guardian—his great love.

Will Elijah make it through the gate? Find out!

The Tendire Gate

Ashavan Doyon

After Doomsday, there wasn’t much left—a world that had fallen apart. It hadn’t been enough to boil the oceans and raze the surface with fire. With that scorched earth had come a final solution, the contagion. In a world where every breath was ash and disease, few survived.

The Imperium hunted them, extracting healthy flesh to extend the life of the powerful. All the while, soaring unseen, the tools of an old order search. Hidden far from the sight of the ruthless Imperium, deep beneath the earth, the DIRE stations offer renewal—an exit from the destruction of the world.

Those ships, like a phoenix, rise with the last refugees to bring them to DIRE, hoping that a keeper yet lives to hold open the only chance of escape.

Link to The Tendire Gate on Amazon

Link to The Tendire Gate at Purple Horn Press

This story was a real departure for me and I’d love to hear what you think. Have you read the story? What did you think about Elijah and Dylan? Do you want to find out more? I’ve been toying with the idea of a sequel or a prequel … we might just find out how Elijah and Dylan met yet. But tell me what you want to see! Comment here or find me at my website: ashavandoyon.com

Ashavan Doyon may have been a yeti in a prior life or possibly part giant. Either that or Texan air seriously messes up child development. During the day he’s a quiet and unassuming assistant at a liberal arts college in New England. At lunch, in the evenings, and when he can escape the grasp of his husband on weekends, Ashavan writes—with keyboard sounds on, because typing should make noise, beautiful clicky-clacky noise. He grew up reading fantasy classics and science fiction stories, but loves most speculative fiction. Growing up there was no such thing as a happy gay love story, and Ashavan writes to put those stories, full of fragility, beauty, even terror sometimes, into the world.

Consumed outside of his writing by a life with his husband and their ancient pug, Ashavan lives in Massachusetts and frequently complains about the snow that he never saw growing up in Texas. He went to school at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies with a focus in language and literature. Ashavan continues to adore speculative fiction and can often be found rereading the classics he grew up with in his spare time.

Find him:

On the web at www.ashavandoyon.com

On Facebook at www.facebook.com/ashavandoyon.writer

On Twitter at @ashavandoyon