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A burned-out marketer returns to tend her aunt’s bookshop-café during recovery. As she reopens routines and stages a neighborhood event, a city job offer and an outside buyer force June to decide whether to move on or help the community marshal small, practical resources to keep the shop.

June Harlow finds a peculiar blank journal that makes written lines come true. As she uses it to mend fractures after her sister’s death, memories begin to fray for others. When the cost becomes clear, she confesses, faces the fallout, and tries to rebuild truth by human work rather than quick fixes.

Decades after the climate infrastructure fell, Hollowfall survives on dwindling cisterns. Ex-hydrologist Mara Jansen must reach Station Seven — a derelict precipitation-control complex — where old protocols, rival syndicates and a brittle machine force a choice over who controls water.

In fogbound Nethershade, a pact feeds a sentient bell with stolen recollections to keep a northern rot at bay. Mira Voss returns to find her own hand in the bargain's ledger and must choose whether to unmake the Accord—at the cost of identity itself.

Evie Hart returns to her coastal hometown for her brother's funeral and discovers an orchard that speaks with the dead. Its fruit replay lost voices, but every listening exacts pieces of memory. Confronting guilt and a town hungry for closure, Evie faces a terrible bargain.

An apprentice at the Quiet Archive is drawn into a leak of living memories when a fractured stone spills a lullaby tied to her lost past. As cities taste forbidden recollections, she must bind the Root that holds them — and choose what part of herself to give in return.

A municipal records technician discovers systematic deletions that erase people from civic memory. As she follows a trail tied to her missing brother, she must decide whether exposing a corporate‑backed program will restore truth—or make new casualties.

In Briar Hollow, seamstress Iris Vale keeps the dead close by sewing memories into threads. When those bindings begin to fray and the town’s recollections slip away, she must decide: keep mending at the cost of her own memories, or perform a release that frees souls but erases the faces people love.