The Resin-Scribe’s Contraband Archives

About this book

In the highly stratified metropolis of Sylvasa, carved into the petrified boughs of a world-tree, seventeen-year-old archive copyist Linnea Vance stumbles upon a horrifying truth: the city's engineered 'blight' is a systematic purge of the lower terraces' water supply to sustain elite longevity. Told entirely through smuggled letters, miscataloged ledgers, and fragmented self-audits, this dual-timeline narrative weaves between Linnea's hesitant moral awakening in her youth and her descent into an underground information broker at twenty-two. As she decodes ciphers proving the illegitimacy of the ruling class and navigates a perilous, explicitly intimate relationship with an enforcer named Kaelen, Linnea must transition from a passive preservationist to an active dissident. Her journey culminates in a desperate mission to breach the sealed heart-chamber archive, confronting her own estranged mother—the architect of the historical cover-up—and forcing a devastating choice between familial loyalty and the liberation of Sylvasa.

Book details

Genres:

Literary Fiction, Fantasy

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-13

Content rating:

R