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The Paper Leviathan
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Series: The Vellumspire Chronicles, Book 1
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Publisher: Lirion Press
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seventeen-year-old Mara survives her capital city's oppressive caste system by copying texts in her father's scriptorium. But Mara has a dangerous habit of noticing the patterns that others ignore. When she discovers that someone has spent the last six years surgically removing specific, highly technical pages from rare arcane texts passing through her shop, she realizes her home has been used as a pipeline for stolen magic.
Unable to reconstruct the missing pages locally, Mara and her sharp-witted best friend, Amilia, travel to Vellumspire-a massive, canyon-carved library-city where the intact original books are held. But Vellumspire's knowledge is gated by wealth and patronage. To bypass its elite gatekeepers, Mara is forced into an uneasy alliance with Warden Corin, a rigid institutional enforcer who is secretly tracking the same conspiracy.
As Mara maps the stolen knowledge and battles bureaucratic sabotage, she uncovers a terrifying truth: the thieves aren't just hoarding spells. They are assembling a machine capable of unraveling the kingdom's entire magical architecture by targeting the royal graves that anchor it. But when the conspiracy's leader confronts her with the reality that destroying the system might be the only way to free its oppressed people, Mara must choose between protecting a corrupt institution that despises her, or letting a death-bound machine tear her world apart.
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