In a world where language is stripped of feeling and emotion is forbidden, Nora works at the Word Recovery Bureau, deleting banned phrases and dismantling memories one line at a time. Her days pass in order and silence until a Level 6 Restricted manuscript lands on her desk and refuses to vanish.
The pages hold dangerous words. Poetic. Intimate. Familiar. They stir emotions Nora was trained to deny grief, longing, love and trigger memories she doesn't recall making. A child's voice slips into her mind. Dreams she never should've had surface, along with fragments of rebellion written in her own hand.
Each page shakes her hold on the Bureau's reality and drags her closer to truths they tried to bury. Language has weight. Language has power. And somewhere out there, someone still remembers her voice.
In a regime built on silence, what happens when the eraser becomes the one who remembers?
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Like every tale in Turning Points, this one proves that trust is fragile and nothing is ever what it seems.
Turning Points is a twist-driven series where the unexpected always finds you. From unsettling family dramas to sharp-edged sci-fi and dark comedy, each book delivers a jolt a secret, a reveal that turns the truth upside down. These stories cut across suspense, emotion, and ideas built to linger, written for readers who crave the gasp, the double-take, the moment that shifts everything.
You'll question what looks certain. You'll flip back through pages.
Because here, trust is never safe and every ending rewrites the start.