The Archive of Stolen Lives

In the gas-lit vaults beneath the city's wet black streets lies the Archive — a secret repository where lives are not remembered but borrowed. Elara Venn has perfected the art of becoming someone else: refined, charming, untouchable. She wears other people's identities like silk gloves, leaving her own muted self behind each night.
But when she selects the vessel known only as Lys, the boundaries begin to dissolve. The imprint does not fade. It settles. It whispers. It refines her into somet...