The Record Keeper – A visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present (Paperback)

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In the aftermath of a third world war, peace exists only because it is enforced. The planet is scarred, its future dependent on absolute obedience to laws designed to prevent another collapse, whatever the human cost.

In The Record Keeper, Arika Cobane has been raised to believe in that system without question. After a decade of training, she is poised to join the Kongo elite, guardians of order and privilege. Her faith begins to fracture when a new student challenges the morality of a peace built on sacrifice and silence. The doubt is unsettling, but it is also difficult to dismiss.

As Arika begins to look more closely at the rules she has sworn to protect, she uncovers how deeply they shape suffering as well as stability. What follows is a quiet, insistent reckoning with power, loyalty, and fear. The Record Keeper traces one woman’s awakening in a world that survives by denying choice, and asks what freedom might demand when compliance feels safer than truth.