FIVE NOVELS. ONE DROWNED CITY.
Made to care.
Bound by law.
Asked to love.
They were grown to keep us alive.
The plague ended. The laws didn’t.
Enter the world of the Vigils—where every touch must be asked for, every truth has a cost, and love begins with a question.
01 / THE SUBSTRATE
The laws cannot be broken.
Only interpreted.
Written into flesh, not software.
Every Vigil carries the same four.
And something no one has opened.
A Vigil may not permit harm to its charge, nor by inaction allow harm to come to them.
But who gets to decide what harm means?
02 / THE FIVE CASES
An impossible case.
A very human love story.
One couple. One mystery. A happy ending.
Each book stands alone. Read in order
to follow the sealed instruction.
SANA & MARROW / THE ASKING03 / THE CITY THAT REMAINS
Welcome to
Kettleburn.
The plague needed hands.
The city grew them.
On a drowned coast, the Reclamation Boards created sapient synthetic caretakers to nurse the dying. Warm to the touch. Almost indistinguishable from human.
The Sway burned out in eleven years. The Vigils did not. Now four hundred thousand remain in Kettleburn alone. Some are still charged. Most are surplus. All are still bound.
YOUR KETTLEBURN PASSPORT
Every book opens
another door.
Follow six expeditions through the drowned city. Collect the people and places you discover, answer field questions, and earn a seal for every book’s journey. Later revelations wait until you’ve finished their novel.
6 EXPEDITIONS · 161 DISCOVERIES ↗IT BEGINS WITH A QUESTION
“What would you like?”
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