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The Archivist's Skin
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some secrets don't stay buried. They just find somewhere new to live.
For two hundred years, Marlowe Vane has carried her city's worst secrets the only way she's ever been allowed to: sealed into her own skin.
Forty-one stories. Forty-one atrocities, griefs, and lies too dangerous to let loose in the world above - each one inked into her arms as a living tattoo, waiting.
It has cost her everything she used to be. She doesn't remember her own name anymore. Some mornings, she isn't entirely sure which thoughts in her head are actually hers.
She's not the only one keeping count.
Somewhere in the city, ordinary people are quietly going hollow - walking, smiling, saying the right words at the right times, with nothing left behind their eyes. Marlowe has learned to recognize them in a crowd. She's never told anyone how many she's found.
Now the oldest tattoo she carries - the one that was never supposed to move again - is coming apart. Something has been waiting a long time for exactly this moment, and it isn't interested in saving her.
She has days to hold together what's breaking loose, before it takes the last of who she is along with it.
If she fails, she won't be the only one who forgets what she used to be.
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