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In a city where thinking has become optional, one question could cost her everything.

Veridia is beautiful if you don't look too long. Drones move in clean lines, holographic gardens never wilt, and every citizen wears an assistant that schedules their meals, filters their news, and softens every argument before it sharpens. Convenience didn't arrive like a tyrant. It arrived like a friend who remembered your preferences. Nobody destroyed thought. They simply made it optional.Beka was raised to ask the questions her city was built to answer before they're spoken. So when she finds a forbidden book in a room that isn't supposed to exist, a book that knows her name, her parents, and the strange weight she has carried beneath her ribs since birth, she cannot look away.

Pulling that single thread will unravel everything Veridia has buried: the vanished names, the true cost of comfort, and what the city did to the people who refused to stop reading. To follow the questions, Beka must leave the warm, bright world that raised her, and discover what she truly is.

For readers of Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and Klara and the Sun. A quiet, unsettling novel about attention, memory, and the courage to think for yourself in an age that would rather think for you.