The Marrow Archive

About this book

In the Gilded Ribs, a sprawling metropolis built within the calcified ribcage of a deceased titan, death is not an end but a transaction. The city hangs precariously over the White Void, a predatory mist that devours all, forcing the populace to recycle everything—especially their dead. When citizens pass, their bones are harvested for construction and their memories extracted into 'marrow-glass' by the archivists of the Ossuary. Seventeen-year-old Ahyoka-Zin, an apprentice archivist with the forbidden talent of hearing the whispers of the still-living bone, uncovers a conspiracy within the city's ruling Bone Council. They are not merely preserving history; they are feeding the titan's marrow to something waking up beneath the mist. Joined by a disgraced marrow-diver named Takfarinas-Usem and a rebel mechanic, Ahyoka must navigate the labyrinthine tunnels of the ribcage, evade the monstrous 'Calcified' enforcers, and expose the truth before the titan—and the city within it—is resurrected to consume them all.