Nessa Quill files other people's lives for a living. She has never once been filed herself. Then she reads a forbidden ledger aloud and binds a dungeon-born archivist to her side-a man who cannot lie, cannot leave, and remembers every word she's ever spoken in her sleep. To break the binding, Nessa has to descend the Ninefold Archive's lower stacks, where shelves hunt and footnotes bite, and where her old mentor is already farming the same floors for glory. Somewhere on the way down is the last page of her own file. It was deleted on purpose. Taking it back will cost her her class, her mentor, and the only mother she's ever had. The Archive has never been outwitted. Nessa has never been read.
