Thread and Blade: A Fracture Line Saga (Threads of Ash and Wire Book 1)

In the City of Shadows, Meridian treats memory as a resource, and forgetting is policy.

Kira Vale wakes to a fragment of someone else’s life: a child’s laughter, a chipped spoon, a taste of metal that won’t leave her mouth. In a world where the Authority edits history and compliance is measured in habits, even a stray recollection can be dangerous.

As Kira hunts the origin of her ghost memory, she’s drawn into the Market of Shards, where memories are traded, erased, and weaponized. Here, resistance isn’t a revolution; it’s a ritual. Every act of remembering is an act of defiance, every habit a threat to the system’s control.

But Meridian adapts. Leaks are contained, witnesses recalibrated, and the city’s story is rewritten in real time. To survive, Kira and her allies must learn to fight not with spectacle, but with endurance, embedding truth in the rhythms of daily life, and trusting that even the smallest rituals can fracture the Authority’s perfect narrative.

In a society where power fears habit more than truth, what does it mean to remember?