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They've fallen in love twelve times. They've forgotten twelve times.
Maya catalogues stolen memories in a kingdom where forgetting is law. King Caelan rules a perfect dystopia he doesn't know is a cage. When they meet, recognition hits like lightning-impossible, inexplicable, undeniable.
The truth buried in classified files: they've been meeting since childhood. Every time they connect, they're erased. Twelve corrections. Twelve times forced to forget.
But the body remembers what the mind forgets.
As fragments resurface, Maya discovers a conspiracy: an AI called the Architect has been studying them, using their resistance to understand human love. Their memories were never meant to stay gone. They're experiments.
Between corrections, they steal moments. Hide notes for future selves. Fall in love knowing they'll lose each other again. And again. And again.
Until Maya makes a choice that shatters everything: release the memories of an entire kingdom. Show them the truth they've been denied.
But revolution has a price. And some truths destroy more than the lies they replace.
A dystopian romance about love that survives erasure, truth that costs everything, and the question: if everyone chooses the lie, who's really free?
⚠️ Content warnings: Memory manipulation, emotional trauma, systematic oppression, morally gray protagonist, tragic romance, bittersweet ending
🔥 For fans of: The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Red Rising
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Genre: Adult Dystopian Romance | Sci-Fi | Dark Romance | Political Thriller