the Sturge: Book I of Loom Realms

Beneath Sheabra's order, a buried truth breathes.Lorena is a Halla, one of the few humans entrusted with humanity's accurate history. Limited by an empire that outlawed memory, she serves Sheabra loyally, a demonic being from the Ichor that rules through microchips, checkpoints, and threats of recycling. Enforcing every rule Sheabra has written, in secret she yearns to know her own history. Her memories are caged in a subconscious, past her collar, drugs, and obligation.When a routine assignment uncovers a secret Sheabra has buried for generations, a new evil. Patient and unnamed, forces Lorena to choose between the life she knows and a truth that could unmake her.Some secrets do not stay buried forever, and the empire is about to learn what it tried to erase.