The Extractionist

By Douglas Chapman

She breathes wrong. That's what saved her.

In a world where memory is currency and identity can be filed away, Vesper Vane extracts resonance from the dead in the undercity called the Warrens. She's never been caught. She's never been filed. She's never breathed the way the Academy says she should.

When she's dragged into a Tournament where competitors harvest memories under impossible stakes - lose, and your identity is archived forever - Vesper discovers her reversed channels can do something no extractor has done in three centuries. She can read beneath the filing. She can find the person the system erased.

Assigned a handler with incomplete filing and silver eyes that see too much, Vesper begins to suspect the Tournament isn't a competition. It's an experiment. And she's the subject.

As the extractions escalate and the scars accumulate, Vesper must decide: destroy the system that designed her, or become the weapon her father always intended.

The asking hums. The answering hums back.

Book One of The Unfiled Trilogy

For readers who love the emotional intensity of A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Serpent and the Wings of Night - written with atmospheric prose that makes you feel every breath, every scar, every almost-touch.

Features: Slow-burn romance, enemies-to-allies-to-lovers, tournament arc, dark academia, morally grey characters, found family, identity mystery, breathwork magic system, strong female lead, series with interconnected universe

All characters in romantic situations are 21+.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXBQ4BBM
• ISBN13: 9798255534043
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"