Lucas Vale is the perfect tool in human form, devoid of a past and personal desires. His cold logic and absolute control are weapons paid for in gold by influential people. Everything changes when he is tasked with stealing the heart of an ancient library — not an artifact, but its very soul. This is the first job where the price is not simply someone's life, but the memory of an entire world. And it is the first decision he makes not as a mercenary, but as a man, driven by a quiet, personal thirst for possession.