If perception can be rewritten, then truth is only as strong as the person holding it.

Clara Morven, a social media WWII historian, takes a MoD archiving job at a remote airfield in Scotland. While cataloguing fire-damaged records, she inhales ash and begins experiencing vivid, intrusive visions that feel more real than her waking life.

As the visions intensify, Clara teams up with Pip, a young historian, and Catriona, her guest house host. Together, they uncover evidence of a secret government program called the Happiness Lens, designed to manipulate perception and control entire communities. Beneath the archive lies the Paradise Block, a hidden human testing facility where reality itself was altered.

Trapped inside an iron Quonset hut, Clara's grip on reality fractures. She finds records that place her inside the project decades before her birth. The deeper she searches, the less real her world becomes.

Fans of "We Spread" by Iain Reid, "Beautiful Ugly" by Alice Feeney, and "Broken Light" by Joanne Harris will enjoy "The Archive of Ashes."

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