WHEN THE STATE STEALS YOUR WORDS, YOU STILL HAVE YOUR VOICE. WHEN THEY STEAL YOUR FAMILY, WILL YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO USE IT? In the near future, the Librarian algorithm imposes tailored censorship to protect citizens from ideas that could inflict trauma or incite crime. Detective Virginia Wright is going undercover in the criminal world of spoken poetry to hunt down suppliers of illegal open-access e-readers. She has buried herself in her work ever since her mother died. But when her remaining family are arrested for literary crimes, her world starts to crumble. And when the criminal she is supposed to catch gives her the most precious gift of all, her moral compass is sent spinning.
Would She Be Gone is the first novelette in the Censored City series: A post-analog world on the tipping point of Orwellian dystopia and the women whose choices will determine which way it falls.