The First Chair

A death in a room that should not exist leads Mara Voss toward the buried origins of the system she has spent years learning to navigate.

Ancient records, erased names, and a manuscript hidden inside an older history reveal a founding story shaped by memory, authorship, and the deliberate control of what survives in the record.

As the investigation reaches its source, Mara must confront the first architect of the method—and the uncomfortable possibility that the history she has been auditing was written with her in mind.