Thearsonist Stories

They told me the gold was a curse, so I buried it under layers of silk and silence. Argider is a masterpiece of erasure. As a high-end architectural conservator, he specializes in fixing the broken facades of the elite-much like he's fixed his own. After a brutal childhood attack left him scarred, he's spent a decade "passing" in a cold, sterile suburb, living as a ghost in a silk-shield suit. Amara is a lens for the truth. A documentary photographer with fire in her braids and a sun-drenched soul, she doesn't believe in perfect surfaces. When she's hired to document Argider's latest project, she doesn't see a polished architect; she sees the man hiding behind the glass. In a world of Glitter and shadows, Amara's lens might be the only thing that can see Argider's light-or the very thing that sets his carefully built world on fire.