The Star Gates

About this book

Between the quiet alleys of Cairo and behind the walls of Aunt Amira's house, everything seemed ordinary in the summer of 2023, until that moment when a rift opened between the two worlds. It was no mere five-pointed star pendant found by Muadh under a passing tree, but a key to a temporal and spatial gate, a fissure in the wall of reality that pulled five teenagers into "the Kingdom of Nishrawan"; where blue sands stretch, fish fly in the sky, and the dead are resurrected as gray-faced demons. From a simple family trip, Maisara, Esraa, Arwa, Maher, and Muadh find themselves facing a merciless queen, and the laws of a world where life is sold for "fortunes" of fish food, and souls are punished in rivers of crimson red. Amid this mystery, the specter of Younes looms; the young man who sacrificed everything, even his very being, for an impossible love, remaining suspended, begging for salvation. This work is no mere fantasy, but a human journey into the depths of sacrifice, where horror intertwines with.