The Library That Collects Us

Every city has a library everyone knows. New York has one no one is supposed to find.Beneath the New York Public Library, behind a door sealed for a hundred years, lies the Collectors’ Library. It doesn’t collect books. It collects the forgotten—souls erased from the city’s memory, each held inside a book, each waiting for someone to remember their name.Nora Hayes works the night shift upstairs. When she discovers the hidden library, she learns it has chosen her as its next Keeper. Her task is to open the books, listen to the lost, and help set their souls free.Then she meets Elias: a boy trapped in a nameless book for ninety years. He knows the Library’s rules—and why some of its secrets were never meant to be uncovered.As the shelves breathe in the darkness and the forgotten begin to stir, Nora must discover what the Library truly wants. Because some libraries don’t want to be saved.They want to be loved.