The Last Archivist

Thousands of years ago, an ancient civilization vanished from the world without explanation. Only one place still remembers them: the Archive, an endless magical library that exists outside of time, where every memory of every person who has ever died becomes a book upon its shelves.  No one knows it is there. No one has ever found it — until the morning an assistant librarian named Kael, sorting forgotten donation crates in the oldest cellar of the Aurientine Library in Elaris, touches a wall that should not be there and finds a staircase that should not exist.  At the bottom waits a hall of thousands of blank books and a single black volume untouched by dust or time. When Kael's fingers meet its cover, time stops, the world goes silent, and a calm ancient voice speaks a sentence that will rewrite the rest of his life.