The Bone ArchiveKNOWLEDGE IS A DEBT. THE ARCHIVE ALWAYS COLLECTS.At the Aethelgard Institute, history is not a subject-it is a harvest. Here, the world's elite study Necro-History, the forbidden art of dragging spirits from the "Grey" to surrender their secrets. But the university hides a biological horror: the school itself is built upon the calcified ribcage of a prehistoric beast, and its "files" are powered by the souls of the students who failed to graduate.Elara Vance is a scholarship student from the soot-choked slums of District Nine. She has no lineage, no money, and no future-only a terrifying, raw frequency that allows her to hear the mountain's heartbeat. When Elara discovers that her own name is already etched into a basement headstone dated for graduation day, she realizes that at Aethelgard, you don't just study history. You become it.To survive, Elara must trade away the only thing she truly owns: the memory of her brother's laughter.As the mountain begins to wake and the stone spires turn to flesh, Elara and a band of outcasts must decide what is more dangerous: the ancient silence of the masters, or the world-shaking scream of a god finally allowed to breathe.IN THE WORLD OF THE LIVING LEXICON, THE TRUTH IS A VIRUS.