Cora Soto

About

Between dog-eared library books and her meticulously organized debate club notes, Cora Soto harbors a rebellious secret: she rewrites school library card catalogs at midnight, turning bland classification systems into intricate, subversive poetry. Her quiet revenge against institutional order plays out one reclassified book at a time, each whispered line a small act of intellectual insurgence.

Backstory

Three generations of Soto women had run the underground book smuggling ring that operated beneath Meadowgrove's seemingly innocent public library, and Cora was meant to be the fourth. Her grandmother started it during wartime censorship, her mother expanded it to include banned books and rare manuscripts, but Cora discovered their family secret purely by accident when she followed a suspicious patron through a hidden door behind the folklore section. That night changed everything—suddenly her mother's late hours made sense, her father's investigative journalism took on new meaning as the operation's lookout, and Cora's own "theft" habit revealed itself as inherited instinct. When her parents' divorce shattered the family business and forced her move to the city, she found herself caught between abandoning the legacy entirely and adapting their methods to survive in a world where information itself had become the most valuable currency.

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