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A city learns a new word for freedom: Not Now. When polite algorithms begin to gate every public promise-shelters, buses, kettles, even air-Elena and a makeshift choir of nurses, coders, drivers, and librarians push back with a different kind of design. From flood shelters to newsrooms, from transit platforms to housing offices, they write a House Style for civic life: broadcasts without bargains, benches without timers, help without a price on privacy. As the movement grows, the city's power brokers pivot, offering reasonable versions of everything-reasonable energy, reasonable borders, reasonable credit-so long as you tap to agree. But corners can be held, kettles can be sovereign, and rooms can be kept alive by the people in them. What begins as a button becomes a practice; what begins as a practice becomes a Charter. The Charter of Rooms is the second novel in The Ash and the Roots, a near-future civic thriller about how ordinary spaces-staff kitchens, ticket halls, school gates-become the places where policy learns its manners. It's hopepunk with teeth: brisk, humane, and stubbornly practical about what changes first when people refuse to be priced.

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Arthur Blackwood (b. 1978, London, UK) is an author of thrillers, mysteries, urban fantasy, and supernatural fiction. His novels draw on a lifelong fascination with the unknown-stories where ancient myths, hidden truths, and the shadows of everyday life converge.He studied literature and philosophy at King's College London, disciplines that sharpened his interest in storytelling, symbolism, and the human struggle between light and darkness. Before dedicating himself entirely to writing, Blackwood worked in publishing and as a journalist, experiences that gave him a keen eye for detail and a love of uncovering stories hidden beneath the surface.

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