Minds wiped, all fifteen-year-olds are forced to the Academy. With a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry books to choose from, Seraphine knows that she could easily choose a book to live and be bound in before the deadline. However, when Seraphine begins to enter books that give her ominous warnings and parts of her memories begin to return, she begins to doubt the Academy's motives. With a new word, "history", consuming her thoughts, Seraphine needs to decide if she is willing to fight for her past and a world of togetherness or live in an imaginary world of paper.