About this book:

In a rain-soaked Neo-Kyoto where memories are currency, Sam Lawson operates on the fringes as a memory broker, trading in the city's most valuable commodity. Haunted by fragmented memories he believes aren't his own, Sam's carefully controlled life is disrupted when a high-profile client's seemingly routine memory wipe reveals an insidious anomaly – a digital signature woven into the client's mind. This discovery pulls Sam into a dangerous conspiracy orchestrated by a shadowy organization known as the Architects, who are not just erasing memories but fabricating entire realities, framing innocent people with false pasts.

As Sam delves deeper, seeking answers from underworld contacts and navigating clandestine memory auctions, he uncovers the chilling truth: the Architects are master manipulators, twisting perception and identity on an unprecedented scale. His own fragmented past, the source of his detachment, becomes a terrifying asset when he realizes the anomalous memory fragment he carries is a piece of the Architects' core blueprint – a signature of their creation process itself. This revelation makes him a target, hunted by his own creator, known as The Architect, a figure whose terrifying ambition to control reality is deeply intertwined with Sam's own origins.

Now, a wanted man, armed with the Architects' blueprint and the knowledge of his own fabricated existence, Sam must use his unique understanding of memory and manipulation to expose their operation. He navigates treacherous digital landscapes and crumbling subterranean vaults, racing against time and The Architect's relentless pursuit and insidious psychological warfare – the Betrayal Protocol, designed to unravel his mind. With the fate of a city teetering on the brink of a collective memory blackout, Sam makes a final, desperate trade, unleashing a pulse of raw truth that shatters the Architects' empire of lies, but leaves behind a city grappling with its own fractured reality and a Memory Broker forever changed by the redemption circuit he must now navigate.