The Cartographer of Dying Worlds
After dying in a traffic accident, urban planner Maren Solís is recruited by a mysterious interstitial Bureau to document worlds on the brink of extinction — mapping civilizations before they’re gone forever.
But the more worlds she visits, the more a pattern emerges: these worlds aren’t dying naturally. Someone inside the Bureau is killing them deliberately. And the compass she was given to guide her work points not north, but toward what matters most — which turns out to be the truth the Bureau has spent decades burying.
With a rogue former cartographer, a guilt-ridden field operative, and a brilliant oceanographer she falls in love with across a closed world-window, Maren must transform from passive recorder to active resister — before the Bureau erases not just the worlds she’s documenting, but her own.
A story about memory, complicity, and the radical act of writing things down.