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RECOLLECTION

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Reads 29
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Parts 2
Time 7m

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In a city where memories can be bought, sold, and erased, Aria Vale is one of the best-a neural architect who edits pain with surgical precision. But when fragments of her daughter's erased past start bleeding back into the system, she is drawn into a labyrinth of lost recollections, corporate secrets, and ethical peril.

Chasing the echoes of a life she signed away, Aria must navigate a world where nothing is certain, not even her own mind. Guided-and haunted-by a protective, enigmatic colleague and shadowed by a quiet, controlled ex-husband, she will risk everything to reclaim what was stolen.

Every memory she dives into could shatter her, every revelation could betray her trust, and every heartbeat could be her last.

In RECOLLECTION, love, grief, and obsession intertwine in a mind-bending journey through memory and identity-where the past refuses to stay buried, and remembering might be the only way to survive.All Rights Reserved

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The Forbidden Love by authordhea

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The sin in his eyes by a__27f

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Whispers of Velaria by stray_writter

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