The Memory Forger
In the city of Altaran, memories are currency—and power. The ruling elite hoard knowledge like gold, while the desperate sell fragments of their past to survive. With the right tools, you can buy blissful ignorance, erase a crime, or rewrite your loyalties. But every stolen memory leaves a scar… and some scars never fade.
Ilyas Varin, known on the streets as Rook, is an illegal Memory Forger—erasing, rewriting, and stealing thoughts for the city’s most dangerous players. His tools can sever trauma, fabricate alibis, or bury the darkest sins. His own past? Locked behind mental fortresses even he can’t breach.
But when a high-profile client’s mind reveals a memory of Rook himself, imprisoned and begging for a freedom he doesn’t remember losing, the lines between hunter and hunted collapse.
Now, with the city’s most feared factions—the Blackwell Consortium, rogue mind-brokers, and the secretive Mnemonic Order—circling like vultures, Rook must unravel a conspiracy buried deep within Altaran’s neural underground. His gift made him powerful. His forgotten past might get him killed.
In a world where the mind is no longer sacred… what happens when your own memories become your greatest weapon—or your final betrayal?
