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The Last Library is an epic science-fiction novel set at the terminus of existence, where the titular Library serves as the repository for every past, present, and future timeline. Outside the linear march of time, this vast, non-Euclidean archive attempts to maintain the stability of the entire Continuum. The story centers on Elias Turner, an archivist who discovers a fatal breach of protocol: his own File of Self, a record of his life and an absolute prediction of his imminent, specific death. Driven by an overwhelming fear, Elias begins a desperate defiance of his own fate, an act that shatters the Library's meticulously maintained causal balance. His struggle to rewrite his destiny spirals into a catastrophic temporal collapse, plunging the Library into chaos and drawing the attention of both a powerful, megalomaniacal antagonist who seeks to harness the destruction for her own design, and the Timekeepers, cold, absolute enforcers who arrive with a chilling mandate to ""prune"" (destroy) the entire Library to save the greater timeline. Elias's fight is paralleled by the journey of Sara Blake, a brilliant archivist who initially adheres rigidly to the Library's strict protocols. As the crisis escalates, Sara is forced to confront the terrifying cost of both absolute knowledge and the ruthless preservation of order, pushing her to make impossible choices in partnership with the man who is unintentionally destroying their world. The novel culminates in a high-stakes, chaotic confrontation at the Core of the collapsing Library, where the survival of all of time hangs in the balance. The final resolution is bittersweet: a devastating sacrifice is made to avert universal catastrophe, leading to a new, fragile equilibrium. Sara is left as the sole guardian of the Library, now a place of potential, embracing her role as the keeper of an uncertain future that is no longer dictated by predetermined knowledge, but by the radical possibility of the unwritten.

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