The Bone Archive

<p><strong>The Bone Archive</strong></p><p><strong>KNOWLEDGE IS A DEBT. THE ARCHIVE ALWAYS COLLECTS.</strong></p><p>At the Aethelgard Institute history is not a subject-it is a harvest. Here the world's elite study Necro-History the forbidden art of dragging spirits from the Grey to surrender their secrets. But the university hides a biological horror: the school itself is built upon the calcified ribcage of a prehistoric beast and its files are powered by the souls of the students who failed to graduate.</p><p><strong>Elara Vance</strong> is a scholarship student from the soot-choked slums of District Nine. She has no lineage no money and no future-only a terrifying raw frequency that allows her to hear the mountain's heartbeat. When Elara discovers that her own name is already etched into a basement headstone dated for graduation day she realizes that at Aethelgard you don't just study history. You become it.</p><p>To survive Elara must trade away the only thing she truly owns: the memory of her brother's laughter.</p><p>As the mountain begins to wake and the stone spires turn to flesh Elara and a band of outcasts must decide what is more dangerous: the ancient silence of the masters or the world-shaking scream of a god finally allowed to breathe.</p><p><strong>IN THE WORLD OF THE LIVING LEXICON THE TRUTH IS A VIRUS.</strong></p><p> </p>