The Paper Leviathan (The Vellumspire Chronicles, #1)

Seventeen-year-old Mara survives her capital city's oppressive caste system by copying texts in her father's scriptorium. But Mara has a dangerous habit of noticing the patterns that others ignore. When she discovers that someone has spent the last six years surgically removing specific, highly technical pages from rare arcane texts passing through her shop, she realizes her home has been used as a pipeline for stolen magic.

Unable to reconstruct the missing pages locally, Mara and her sharp...