The Bone Bridge Rebellion

Overnight, a citadel grew from the bones of seventeen thousand dead guardians, and it will not let a single living one pass until someone answers for eight hundred years of silence. The families of the fallen built it. They call themselves the abandoned, and their leader has issued one demand: accountability. Meredith Trevelyn's Council gives her a week before it votes for war. The rebellion gives her three days before the citadel walks. Meredith is done defending the system. She refuses to bring an army. She refuses to bring her failing mentor. She enters the bone galleries alone to hear every story the institution buried, knowing that what she learns could break the guardians forever, or force them, at last, to become worthy of the dead. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant, this is a quiet, devastating fantasy about grief, institutions, and what the living owe the dead. Some rebellions are won with armies. This one will be won by the first guardian brave enough to listen. Open the door. The bones are waiting to be heard.