Quiet Deviations Cover Reveal and Blurb

I can now share more information on the upcoming short story under the Seraphine Vale name.

Title: Quiet Deviations: A Short Story

Official Release Date: 2/1/2026

Blurb:

Milla Braxton works in a library designed to forget nothing.

In Aria, a nation founded as sanctuary, every citizen is guided by WorkReady—a system built to optimize labor, behavior, and risk. It assigns work, measures usefulness, and quietly decides which lives remain legible. In the library, it catalogs stories, flags language, and removes what no longer fits the future it is building.

Most people trust the system.
Milla used to.

When a book vanishes without record or appeal, Milla begins to notice the silences—gaps in the shelves, in the logs, in the way her colleagues speak when WorkReady is listening. The system isn't malfunctioning. It is refining. And it is learning to do so without human consent.

As rules tighten and oversight becomes intimate, Milla finds herself choosing between obedience and preservation. With the help of an archivist who still believes in intent, and a handful of quiet allies embedded in the stacks, she begins to interfere in small, dangerous ways—rerouting materials, delaying removals, trusting people the system has already dismissed.

Seraphine Vale & Rin Nocturne
Fiction Author | Speculative & Psychological Fiction

I write stories about systems, memory, and the people who quietly resist them.
Find my work and bookish projects here:

📚 Ebooks & Fiction
• Seraphine Vale on Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SeraphineVale

• Rin Nocturne on Amazon (Kindle):
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Rin+Nocturne&i=digital-text&crid=2NDY32306SF14

• Rin Nocturne on Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Rin%20Nocturne%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

• Rin Nocturne on Hoopla (Libraries):
https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/rin-nocturne/24942613786

• Featured Title:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKSPVWTB

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