KIRA: Built For This: The War Was Only Ever About Who Gets to Choose.

Every power has a price. Someone has been writing it down.There is an office in the occupation's records wing that exists to file people who burned out using the System. It has been open for twenty years. It is meticulous.When Kira finally gets inside it, she finds Orin's handwriting on entries dated long before she was born.Orin - steady, patient, the man who taught her how to stay alive off the grid - was one of them. He is what's left of one.Meanwhile the Varek retrieval units have stopped hunting and started collecting. They are not killing bearers any more. They are taking them alive, and there is a reason for that, and it is worse.Kira's answer is to build something the retrieval net cannot read: an alliance of people with no reason to trust each other and every reason to run.What she finds at the far end of it is still transmitting.Three complete books in one volume: Burnout Ledger, Retrieval Net, and Off-Grid Oath. 135,000 words, roughly nine hours of reading.