About this book:

In the near-future metropolis of New Avalon, memories are the ultimate currency, traded and manipulated by skilled "memory brokers" like Maya Lin. Known for her precision and detachment, Maya operates in a world where stolen pasts and manufactured identities are bought and sold. Her carefully maintained professional distance is shattered when a grieving widow requests the retrieval of her late husband’s most cherished memory, one she claims was stolen in his dying moments. This seemingly simple request pulls Maya into a complex and dangerous conspiracy that strikes at the very heart of New Avalon's power structure.

As Maya delves deeper, she uncovers a chilling truth: the memory was not just stolen, but surgically extracted using Project Chimera, a prototype technology wielded by a shadowy syndicate known as the Architects of Thought. This group seeks to control New Avalon’s future by rewriting its past, manipulating the minds of its most brilliant citizens. With the help of the enigmatic Weaver, an ally operating in the city's black market, Maya discovers that her own fragmented past, a "blankness" she’s long ignored, makes her uniquely resistant to Chimera and potentially the key to unlocking the Architects’ ultimate plan.

Caught between the Architects' relentless pursuit, the Weaver's cryptic agenda, and the shocking betrayal of someone she trusted, Maya finds herself a pawn in a high-stakes war for the city’s collective consciousness. The truth about her own engineered identity, her connection to Project Chimera, and the horrifying scope of the Architects' plan to merge all minds into a single collective consciousness culminates in a desperate confrontation at the Apex Tower, the very heart of New Avalon's digital grid. Carrying the burden of the Lost Archive—the city’s raw, unfiltered history—within her own mind, Maya must make a choice that will determine the fate of memory, identity, and the soul of New Avalon itself.