Lander's Gate, When past lives call, don't answer

2025 Shelley Award, Grand Prize Winner

Everyone carries memories of past lives buried deep in the subconscious—moments of suffering and death mercifully forgotten.

Until Lander Gate touches them.

With a single touch, Lander opens a gate into another person’s darkest past-life memories—and they both relive every terror, every wound, every death.

He knows why she fears water, because one touch and they're both drowning; why the server flinches at heights, because they're both falling from the high wire. It's a curse that leaves him fearful and isolated.

But as Lander learns to control the portal, it starts to open onto more than death — and a curse becomes something that might let him help the very people he once terrified. He'll need it. A prominent doctor is hiding what was done to Lander, and he'll spring a trap to silence him before the truth gets out — while Lander races to recover the one past he's never been able to reach: his own.

Lander's Gate blends psychological thriller with paranormal suspense, for readers who cheer for broken heroes finding their way — a story where secrets, karma, and survival are inescapably intertwined.