Every shelf has a secret. Every story has a reckoning. Bonnie thought she understood chaos. Between cursed cookbooks, collapsing shelves, and companions who never quite follow the rules, she's learned to survive the unpredictable. But when the Archive pulls her away from Earth and into a new library not of this Earth, she must endure trials where science fiction and speculative fiction demands its voice be heard-and Bonnie will have to decide what kind of story she belongs to. The spiral has carried her this far, but the reckoning ahead will change everything.