For years, senior archivist Amara Hemings curated the nation’s history at the Library of Congress. But when her father — an aide to the President — reveals her true inheritance, her life changes overnight. She is now the Keeper of the Veritas Archive, a record maintained since 1802 by James Hemings, a freed man and Jefferson confidant, documenting betrayals too dangerous to make public.

A premature personnel notice exposes her role, drawing the attention of Temujin — a shadow network of corporate and political elites. Surveillance shifts from quiet observation to direct intimidation, culminating in a break‑in at her apartment and a message left on her table: We have the same access you do.

With her father recovering from a heart attack, Amara uncovers decades of corruption: the Ford Pinto memo’s lethal cost‑benefit calculus, post‑war educational sabotage, and disaster‑response delays engineered for profit. Her only ally is Pulitzer‑winning photojournalist Jordan Cade, who is investigating a live case echoing the Pinto playbook — a corporation refusing to fix a fatal defect until the death toll justifies the cost.

As Temujin closes in, Amara realizes the archive is more than a record — it is leverage. In the wrong hands, it could crown the richest person in America. Releasing it could destroy her. Silence might be her only way to survive.