Hardboiled Softcover

By: Amy Simone

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the Athenaeum, silence isn’t just polite—it’s law.

Caroline Alta is a librarian whose job goes far beyond shelving books. When stories get too loud, characters slip out of their pages, or magic leaks between genres, she is the one who restores order with a single whispered word. Quiet. Containment. Control.

Until the night the library’s most powerful artifact—the Quill of Infinite Ink—is stolen.

The prime suspect is Jack Sterling, a hardboiled private investigator ripped straight from the pages of a noir novel. He’s cynical, stubborn, and very much out of place in a magical library that wants him erased. Caroline knows the truth doesn’t add up—but defying the rules of the Athenaeum could shatter the only world she’s ever known.

Now a meticulous librarian and a rule-breaking detective must race against time through locked-down stacks, fractured genres, and living stories to uncover the real thief. Because if the Quill isn’t found, Jack will be unwritten… and reality itself may be rewritten.

Hardboiled Softcover is a sharp, atmospheric blend of fantasy and noir—perfect for readers who love magical libraries, reluctant heroes, witty banter, and mysteries where the rules of the world are as dangerous as the crime.

Step into the stacks, break the rules, and discover what happens when fiction refuses to stay on the page.
Read Hardboiled Softcover today—and enter a library where every story can kill.