The Blood Archive: A Novel

The firm took down the billboards in the winter, and that was how Elias knew it had found something worse than a hunt. The world is asleep. The warm rooms have won. And the company that authored humanity's certainty has begun its final and most total work: erasing the awake from memory itself - editing the unfinished human being out of the human record, so that a sleeping world will not merely rest, but forget that waking was ever possible. You cannot wake to a thing you have never heard of. Against the great erasure stand a handful of tired people in the dark, keeping the Archive - the last record of who the finished truly were. And they are no longer alone: a defecting architect carrying the memory of everyone she helped empty, a discarded hunter awake at last, and the exiled steward who started all the grief and has spent nine years secretly keeping the dead. To save the Archive, they must do the one thing certain to bring the whole firm down on them: reach into its heart, take the record of every soul it ever finished, and scatter it past saving - returning the dead to the living, one grieving household at a time, in a world that has been told the truth is a sickness. They cannot win the world. They lost it long ago. But a thing remembered can always, someday, return - and across five books, the Blood Series comes to its close on the only victory the awake ever believed in: not the present, but the future's right to wake. The final book of the Blood Series. No one is ever finished.

Pagina's: 136, Paperback, Independently published