The Memory Auction

n a city where memories are bought, sold, and consumed like luxury commodities, Briar Nightshade works as one of the elite restorers for the powerful Lethe Corporation — repairing damaged memories for the wealthy while living with a mind completely erased of its own past.

Her life is orderly, silent, and emotionally empty… until a mysterious man named Valen walks into her restoration booth carrying a fractured memory core that should not exist.

The moment Briar touches it, forgotten sensations begin to bleed through the cracks: rain on asphalt, distant laughter, and the terrifying possibility that her missing past was never an accident at all.

As Briar and Valen descend into the hidden underworld of memory trafficking, stolen identities, and black-market emotions, they uncover a conspiracy that turns human love and grief into profitable commodities. But the deeper Briar digs into the truth, the more she realizes that the most dangerous memory in the city may be her own.

In a world built on forgetting, remembering could destroy everything.