The Memory Market

In a future where memories are currency, Arden Vale is one of the best brokers in the neon-lit underground-able to read, restore, and reshape the mind like an art form. He's survived scandals, Syndicate threats, and even self-inflicted erasures meant to bury mistakes too painful to remember.

But everything changes when a trembling client, Eli, walks into his office carrying a Spectre: a memory fragment predicting a murder that hasn't happened yet.

The victim? A whistleblower on the verge of exposing the entire memory industry.

The problem?
The memory is expertly fabricated-or planted.

Now Arden is caught in a maze of false memories, dangerous truths, and a conspiracy engineered by someone who knows how to weaponize the past. As he and Eli grow tangled in a dangerous bond, Arden must decide whether to profit from the chaos... or stop a tragedy woven from lies.

In a world where identity can be rewritten, what's left of a person when their memories aren't their own?