In a sterile, hyper-regulated metropolis where books are treated as dangerous intellectual hazards, Garrett Ellington works as a dedicated fireman—not to extinguish flames, but to ignite them. Tasked with systematically incinerating literature to maintain an artificial social peace, Garrett’s comfortable numbness begins to fracture after a chance encounter with an unconventional neighbor and a devastating domestic crisis. Driven by a quiet, dangerous curiosity, he begins to hoard the very volumes he is sworn to destroy. As the authorities close in and his own home becomes a target, Garrett must make a fateful choice: succumb to the safe, sensory-numbing static of the state, or risk everything to join a fragile, underground network dedicated to preserving the remnants of human memory.
In a sterile, hyper-regulated metropolis where books are treated as dangerous intellectual hazards, Garrett Ellington works as a dedicated fireman—not to extinguish flames, but to ignite them. Tasked with systematically incinerating literature to maintain an artificial social peace, Garrett’s com...