Seraphin Woodwall - Echos of the Veil

28/05/2025

Just released on Apple Books & Rakuten Kobo

📆 Kindle Edition coming June 20 – Preorder now!
Echos Of The Veil: Shadows Beyond The Gate
Book 2
“Some doors open with a whisper. Others demand a sacrifice.”

Alex's journey into the spirit realm continues—darker, deeper, more dangerous than ever. The Ghost Month has passed, but the veil remains thin, and shadows stir in the mountains of Taiwan.

In Shadows Beyond the Gate, haunted by the voice of his mother and rituals gone wrong, Alex must confront the darkness that lingers not just around him—but within. Together with Wai Le, he uncovers buried truths, fading gods, and a demon that feeds on sorrow and silence.

💔 Ghosts remember.
🌿 Love endures.
🗝 Some choose to return.

📚 Now available on:
✔️ Apple Books
✔️ Rakuten Kobo
🛒 Kindle (Preorder) – Releases June 20

📖 Get your copy (or preorder):
👉 https://books.apple.com/us/book/shadows-beyond-the-gate/id6746128276

👉 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/shadows-beyond-the-gate-1

👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9CTYL4R

24/05/2025

Just released: "Echo des Schleiers – Das Erwachen", the German edition of Echo of the Veil.

This version isn’t just a translation – it’s a new mirror.

Expanded, deepened, more poetic in its rhythm, this edition leans even further into the emotional undercurrents of Alex's journey. Some scenes are slower, more intimate. Others – sharper. The core remains the same: a young man standing between memory and mystery, love and loss, shadow and self.

It’s not about returning.
It’s about choosing who we become when the past whispers back.

Available now via RanexXus Publishing (Taiwan).

https://www.kobo.com/de/de/ebook/das-erwachen-26

22/05/2025

Awakening Beyond the Veil

When Alex Chen loses his mother, the world does not shatter—it simply shifts, ever so slightly, until nothing sits quite where it used to. His mother, Iris, was never just a mother. She was a keeper of old stories, a woman with ghosts in her voice and temples in her dreams. And in leaving, she leaves behind not silence, but a trail.

It begins as a grieving son’s pilgrimage. But Taipei’s lantern-lit alleys hold more than incense and memory. A whisper in the dark during Ghost Month. A temple that feels too familiar. And then—Taroko Gorge, where the cliffs breathe and the veil is not so thick as it once was.

He walks through the Gates of Souls and does not look back.

There, he meets the White Stag, whose antlers seem carved from moonlight; crosses the Labyrinth of Memories, where voices of the past speak truths no living tongue dares utter; and discovers a hidden library—silent, vast, and dangerously honest. Spirits test his heart. Ancestors call him by names he doesn’t yet understand. And always, the question lingers: Who is he, when he’s no longer just a boy in mourning?

Alex faces the Trial of the Spirit, where fear is not banished, but befriended. He listens to mountains. He weeps with gods. He learns that not all guardians look like warriors, and not every answer arrives in light.

And his mother? She is there. Not as a ghost, but as a presence woven between raindrops, tucked into riddles, and hidden in flame.

By the time Alex reaches the Lake of Memories, the boy who first set out from Douliu is gone. In his place stands someone quieter, steadier, and—finally—awake.

This book does not end with a sword, or a shout, or a final duel.
It ends with a breath.
A knowing.
A veil lifted.

💠 Grief was never the end—it was the key.
💠 The path ahead requires courage, yes—but also stillness.
💠 The veil has opened. And he has stepped through.



Echos Of The Veil on:

Apple:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/awaiking-beyond-the-veil/id6746219830

Barnes And Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/awaiking-beyond-the-veil-seraphin-woodwall/1147446608?ean=2940181653504

Rakuten:
https://www.kobo.com/tw/en/ebook/awaiking-beyond-the-veil-1

Everland:
https://www.everand.com/book/865215976/Awaiking-Beyond-The-Veil-Echos-Of-The-Veil-1

17/05/2025

THE WHITE STAG

He doesn’t speak.
He doesn’t run.

He waits.

In the deepest part of the forest, where the veil thins and breath hangs like mist,
the White Stag appears—not as a threat, but as an invitation.

A guide. A guardian. A memory that has not yet happened.

Some spirits test you.
Others remind you who you were before the pain.





Discover the beginning of the journey in Echos of the Veil – Book One: Awakening Beyond the Veil
Available now on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8PB8XTR
If you believe memory is a kind of magic—this book is for you.

17/05/2025

MASTER CHENG

He speaks little, but every word is a doorway.

In Jiufen’s hidden temple, Master Cheng guides Alex not with answers but with silence, patience, and the scent of burning incense.

He knows what lingers behind the veil.
And he knows some truths must be walked, not told.





Discover the beginning of the journey in Echos of the Veil – Book One: Awakening Beyond the Veil
Available now on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8PB8XTR
If you believe memory is a kind of magic—this book is for you.

16/05/2025

IRIS CHEN

She left before she was ready—
but her spirit never left at all.

In the world of Echos of the Veil, Iris is more than Alex’s mother.
She is memory woven into incense smoke,
the echo of lullabies behind temple doors.

She believed in stories that passed through generations.
She trusted in silence, in ritual, in the soul’s quiet language.

And even in death,
she remains the light by which her son finds his way.






Discover the beginning of the journey in Echos of the Veil – Book One: Awakening Beyond the Veil
Available now on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8PB8XTR
If you believe memory is a kind of magic—this book is for you.

16/05/2025

Alex Chen
He mourns in silence, but his soul speaks louder than magic.

A 20-year-old student caught between grief and awakening.
After losing his mother, Alex is sent to Taiwan—where ghost rituals and temple spirits open doors to a world he never believed in.

He doesn't want to be a hero. He just wants to feel whole again.
But the veil between life and death has other plans.
















Discover the beginning of the journey in Echos of the Veil – Book One: Awakening Beyond the Veil
Available now on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8PB8XTR
If you believe memory is a kind of magic—this book is for you.

15/05/2025

And The journey begins…

When Alex Chen loses his mother, he doesn't just lose his anchor.
He loses the world he thought he knew.

Sent to Taiwan for the Ghost Month—when the veil between worlds grows thin—Alex stumbles into a place of lanterns and shadows, secrets and spirits. There, a hidden temple waits. A boy with too many memories watches. And the first whispers of magic begin to stir.

Awakening Beyond the Veil is the first book in the Echos of the Veil series:
A visionary, q***r spirit fantasy about grief, transformation, and the quiet power of love.

📘 Available now on Kindle:
👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8PB8XTR

👁‍🗨 Read if you believe memory is a kind of magic.

15/05/2025

Some storytellers write from memory. Others from longing.
I write from the space in between.

I’m Seraphin Woodwall—author of the Echos of the Veil series.
A writer of shadows and soul, of spirit magic, q***r longing, and the thin places where grief becomes transformation.

I grew up surrounded by old books, jasmine-scented rain, and stories that blurred the line between the living and the dead. My writing weaves ritual, memory, and healing into fantasy worlds where nothing is just what it seems—and every veil hides a truth.

If you’ve ever felt a presence in silence,
If you’ve ever lost something and become someone new,
If you’ve ever needed to believe in unseen magic—

Then this is where your journey begins.

Welcome to my world.

09/02/2024