Founding Family

Branded an enemy under the state's ruthless morality laws, she vanishes into the industrial underworld of a city built to erase people like her. There, among fugitives, hackers, and outcasts, she finds something she thought had died with her old life: belonging. The House offers sanctuary. Protection. A new family. But beneath its warmth lies another kind of tyranny. As the underground refuge hardens into a radical cell and survival turns into sabotage, Isolde is drawn into a dangerous world of stolen identities, betrayal, and political violence. Caught between a brutal state and a found family becoming as ruthless as the enemy it fights, she must decide where loyalty ends, what freedom costs—and whether saving her soul means betraying the only people who ever took her in. Part dystopian thriller, part intimate story of exile and chosen kinship, The Archipelago of Ghosts is a haunting novel about persecution, belonging, and the thin border between resistance and fanaticism. In a world determined to make her a ghost, Isolde must decide what it means to remain human.