What if your future was written by someone else?
Azira Venn has spent six years preserving the past in the Tide Archive, finding comfort in the certainty of records and the order of verified facts. But when a mysterious cylinder arrives containing a recording of her own death-dated six days in the future-her carefully ordered world begins to unravel.
The recording shows a room she's never seen. A death that hasn't happened. And a woman who looks exactly like her.
As Azira digs deeper, she discovers that the truth is far more terrifying than any single death. The city of Lume is built on a lie. Its future is being manipulated by Continuity, a powerful organization that doesn't just predict tomorrow-it chooses which tomorrows are allowed to exist. Entire lives, memories, and histories have been erased to create a single "stable" reality. Including Azira's own sister, Elara, who was removed from existence twelve years ago.
Now Azira must race against a countdown to a full overwrite that will rewrite reality itself. With the help of a sardonic technician who remembers dying in another life, a twelve-year-old boy who keeps slipping between worlds, and her erased sister reaching out from the other side of reality, she must expose the conspiracy and stop the machine before it's too late.
But in a world where memories can be edited and the past is up for auction, how do you fight for the truth when you can't trust your own mind?
A mind-bending speculative thriller about memory, identity, and the stories we tell to survive-perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Ted Chiang, and anyone who has ever wondered what might have been.