The Altar and the Ink
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The Altar and the Ink A sacred scribe. A silenced truth. A language that remembers. In a vast empire where women are forbidden to read the old tongues and the sacred temple script is controlled by the High Order, seventeen-year-old Ariela serves as a novice scribe in the House of Ink. Trained to transcribe state-sanctioned scripture, she has been taught that obedience is sacred and silence is divine. But when Ariela discovers a scroll written in the outlawed language of the First Women-a language said to awaken the soul-she begins to hear words that have not been spoken in generations. Ink ble...
The Altar and the Ink A sacred scribe. A silenced truth. A language that remembers. In a vast empire where women are forbidden to read the old tongues and the sacred temple script is controlled by the High Order, seventeen-year-old Ariela serves as a novice scribe in the House of Ink. Trained to transcribe state-sanctioned scripture, she has been taught that obedience is sacred and silence is divine. But when Ariela discovers a scroll written in the outlawed language of the First Women-a language said to awaken the soul-she begins to hear words that have not been spoken in generations. Ink bleeds from her fingertips. Symbols bloom across her skin. And memories not her own whisper of a time before the gods were rewritten and the altars were sealed. As the empire tightens its grip and the High Order prepares to destroy the last traces of the old world, Ariela is drawn into a hidden sisterhood of rebels, poets, and priestesses who remember the truth the empire tried to erase: that the first stories were not written in conquest, but in the shape of a woman's voice. Caught between duty and desire, history and prophecy, Ariela must decide whether to protect the lie that sustains the empire-or speak the language that could break it. The Altar and the Ink is a lyrical feminist fantasy about forbidden knowledge, sacred memory, and the power of language to liberate and transform. For readers of The Grace Year, An Ember in the Ashes, and The Book Thief, this is a story for every girl who was told to write in silence-and chose instead to let the ink speak.
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