The Listener

Emiliano Torres Burgos was not supposed to matter.

A third-generation colonized Soloran grew up talentless and with nothing but the stories of his grandfather to push him forward. Emil will attend the University of Las Lumbres, where he will study Theoria Historica, a discipline the Dominion Empire allows because history can be cataloged and manipulated. Made useful only as proof that the Dominion has always been inevitable.
Unlike mathematicians or physicists who turn theory into weapons, Emil has no arcane power. In the exact arts. He is quiet, uncertain, and unaware that being a listener-tuned to echoes of the past-will lead him to change his world.

In the dark archives of La Obscura, old transcripts began to acknowledge his connection to memory. Dust, cedar, ghosts, and half-erased names begin to point him toward Ojos Negros, a massacre buried under the very university that now teaches the Dominion's version of history. In the archive-and with the help of his mentors and friends-Emil begins to understand that history is not dead. It has only been made dormant. And dormant things can wake.

[Currently finishing the book but showing the more-edited first chapters]