What it’s about (no spoilers)

 A final decree has made written language illegal. Libraries are leveled. Digital speech is filtered in real time. Amid the ruins of a mountain academy, Kaia Mori—once a student, now an unwilling leader—joins the Literary Defense Corps to protect the last mythic archive hidden in the Northern Mountains.

As the regime’s memory-rewriting device nears deployment, Kaia must rally a fractured alliance—rebels, hackers, deserters, and scholars—before history itself is edited out. Ink crawls across walls like a living plague. Statues remember what people no longer can. And every choice costs a piece of who you are.

If you like YA dystopian thrillers with cinematic worldbuilding, fierce found family, and a touch of myth-meets-tech, this is for you.

Why I wrote this

 I wanted to tell a story about memory, censorship, and courage—not as abstract ideas, but as everyday choices. What do you keep when the world tells you to forget? What do you risk to pass a story forward?

What you’ll find inside 

• A living world: a shattered academy, lantern-lit bridge markets, and a monastery carved into stone
• High stakes, human scale: leadership under pressure, impossible trade-offs, and the cost of keeping hope
• Lore you can hold: glyphs, contraband tech, and the first threads of the “Ink Plague” mystery
• A heroine you can follow: Kaia’s command logs, quiet moments, and hard-won resolve

Who it’s for 

• Fans of found family, resistance stories, and big, tactile worldbuilding
• Readers of Legend, Scythe, The Hunger Games, The Giver, and The Book Thief vibes

 If a world can ban words, it can’t ban courage. See you on October 1, 2025.