Ella Karman lives in a world ruled by the Social Stock Exchange, where your Influencer ranking determines everything about your life. The higher your stock, the better your opportunities. Drop too low, and you’re forgotten. Ella has grown up inside this system, aware of its cruelty but unsure how to escape it.
When Ella fakes her own death and disappears from her carefully curated digital existence, she finds her way to Keystone. It’s a hidden school that trains students to become thieves, but not the kind who steal money or jewelry. Keystone’s targets are analog artifacts: physical books, photographs, handwritten letters, and other objects that someone is quietly erasing from the historical record. The question of who is behind the erasure, and why, drives the central mystery of the series.
Ella’s transition from a girl who measured her worth in followers to someone willing to risk everything for physical objects she’d never valued before gives the series its emotional core. Katie Delahanty uses Ella’s story to explore what happens when identity becomes a commodity and history becomes something that can be deleted with a few keystrokes.
Reading Order
See the complete Keystone reading order for all books in the series.