Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay.
Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence.
“You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.”
Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph.
“You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, a library assistant who moonlights as a necromancer. “That’s a debt you can only repay with your life—and even that won’t cover the interest.”
With a relentless enemy determined to reclaim her story and transfer it to someone else, Rachel faces a terrifying truth: her memories, her dreams, her very identity—it’s all just a clerical error the library intends to correct.
And the collection department has sharp teeth.
Mystery
Supernatural
Thriller
Magic
Identity
Found Family
Dark Fantasy
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length2 hrs 42 mins
Narrated bySelect Your Own
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 3, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
87. Margin Notes
21. The Night Shift
98. The Plot Hole
32. Overdue Notices
109. Unauthorized Revision
43. Borrowed and Owed
1110. Critical Annotation
54. Pending Collection
1211. Final Circulation
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65. The Unwritten Limbo
13About Bella Vex
76. Removed from Circulation
About the author
Bella Vex
Bella Vex is the dark alter ego of USA Today bestselling romance author Rachelle Ayala. Bella’s work explores themes of identity, transformation, and the price we pay for belonging. She believes that the best horror stories are born where passion and fear intersect.View all by Bella Vex
