About this book:

In the sterile, climate-controlled vaults of the National Manuscripts Repository, Head Archivist Nora Quinn lives for the quiet language of paper and ink. Her world is one of provenance and preservation until a plain cream envelope arrives, containing water-stained fragments of a suppressed 19th-century history. When Nora discovers that these scraps belong to a missing supplement of the famous Harrington Papers—and that her own predecessor was silenced for noticing the theft—she is thrust into a deadly game of historical laundering.

The trail leads from the high-stakes world of elite London auction houses to a remote, fortified monastery on the Cornish coast. At the center of the conspiracy is the Hart Foundation, a powerful philanthropic empire that has spent centuries curating a "clean" version of history by erasing inconvenient truths. As Nora uncovers the "Deaccession Machine"—a systematic operation to steal and rewrite the past—she realizes the stakes are agonizingly personal. The same shadowy network is linked to the unsolved disappearance of her sister, Maeve, who vanished years ago while hunting the very same secrets.

*The Midnight Archivist* is a high-stakes intellectual thriller that explores the thin line between preservation and propaganda. As Nora dodges snipers, navigates boobytrapped vaults, and deciphers ancient ciphers, she must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to protect the integrity of the record. In a world where the powerful can rewrite reality, Nora’s only weapon is the stubborn, unalterable truth hidden in the margins of the archives.