In a world governed by the "Laws of the Ledger," existence is not a right it is a debt. For a hundred years, the city of the Republic has been managed by the clinical, ruthless Vance & Valesko Bank, an entity that treats souls as assets and memories as collateral.The story follows Elina Vance, the brilliant, ink-stained daughter of the city's most powerful bookkeeper, and Valesko, a scarred, soulful Enforcer whose hands are as skilled with a blade as they are with a rebellion. Together, they uncover the "Mirror City" a digital utopia built on the literal life-force of the poor.As they navigate forty chapters of cosmic intrigue, they evolve from cogs in a machine to the "Escapement" of a new world. From the rain-slicked alleys of the Drowned Ward to the white-void of the Source Code, they fight to prove that the only true value in the universe is the "friction" of human love and the "unwritten" potential of a blank page.