The Doorway Year The House of Held Doors, #1
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
15.02.2026
Verlag
Eli Taff, Jr.Seitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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378 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798224156283
A Year Told in Stillness
At Palazzo di Fiorelli, life does not change in sweeping gestures. It shifts in quiet momentsat doorways, in corridors, in glances that are never repeated.
The Doorway Year is a cycle of exactly 500-word flash fiction stories, each capturing a single moment across one transformative year in a noble household.
A Servant Who Sees Everything
Elias Rowe arrives as a junior footman, tasked with standing still, remaining unseen, and never interfering. From his post at the thresholds of the house, he becomes the silent witness to everything the palazzo prefers not to name:
- forbidden attraction and restrained longing
- rivalries simmering below the surface
- power shifting without ceremony
- and the echoes of a forgotten life shaped by war and discipline
He is not meant to matteryet the house begins to change around him.
Seasonal Short Stories, Perfectly Measured
Each story stands alone. Together, they form a complete year:
- Spring brings permission and possibility
- Summer presses heat, proximity, and risk
- Autumn demands performance and consequence
- Winter tests what endures
The result is a slow-burn literary romance, an upstairs-downstairs drama, and a quiet character study told through moments that accumulate rather than explode.
A Literary Historical Fantasy
This is not a traditional romance, though longing runs through it.
Not a war story, though its scars remain.
The Doorway Year explores service, belonging, restraint, and the dignity of standing firm when movement would be easierperfect for readers who value atmosphere, emotional precision, and character-driven storytelling.
For Fans Of
- Downton Abbey and upstairs-downstairs drama
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (for quiet, literary fantasy)
- Regency and historical servant-perspective fiction
- Slow-burn literary romance
- Short stories and flash fiction with depth and cohesion
Some lives change loudly.
Others change by standing stilland carrying what must never be spoken.
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