The Novel · First Edition · 2026
SCARSDALE 2.0
A Prestige Cinematic Spy Thriller by Maëva Ghonda · Luminary Books
A Prestige Cinematic Spy Thriller
SCARSDALE
2.0
Maëva Ghonda
Luminary Books
Synopsis
In a near-future Scarsdale where streetlamps map every face and the hedgerows carry fiber-optic networks the public internet has not yet approached, an intelligence officer who has been right for fourteen months discovers the most dangerous asset in the building is the one she has been carrying inside herself.
SCARSDALE 2.0 opens in the gilded ballroom of the Scarsdale Country Club on the third Tuesday of October, where a gathering of people whose combined influence over global capital flows exceeds that of most sovereign governments has just discovered that one alcove is empty.
Across the next forty-eight hours — from Heathcote Road to Langley to a hardened operations center on the outskirts of Frankfurt that resembles, from the street, a mid-tier accounting firm — Mira Hartwell will move through nine hours of darkness, fourteen kilometers of silence, and the architecture of a trust that has already been written about her without her consent.
The most dangerous intelligence asset is the one that does not know what it carries inside itself. By the final chapter, Mira will know.
Editions
Three ways to step inside the perimeter.
First Edition Hardcover
Signed · Numbered · Cloth-bound · Embossed copper foil
Audio Edition
Unabridged · 12h 14m · Performed by a full ensemble cast
Contents
Thirteen chambers. Forty-eight hours.
- PrologueThe Town That Breathes
- IWhat the Ballroom Knows
- IIFourteen Kilometers of Silence
- IIIThe Architecture of Trust
- IVWhat Langley Keeps in the Light
- VThe City That Built Her
- VIMirror Architecture
- VIIThe Weight of What Is Carried
- VIIINine Hours Through the Dark
- IXBefore the Team Arrives
- XWhat the Framework Holds
- XIThe Shape of What Comes Next
- EpilogueWhat the Town Keeps
Audio Prologue · Listen Now
Hear the opening, before you read it.The Town That Breathes.
Six narrated passages from the prologue of SCARSDALE 2.0. Heathcote Road. Pale copper streetlamps. A curtain that moves three centimeters and stops. Premium narration with chapter markers, scrub, and adjustable narrator.
From the Author
"I wanted to write about the kind of beauty that only exists because someone is paying close attention. Then I wanted to write about who is paying."
— Maëva Ghonda