About this book:

In a near-future city where memory is a malleable commodity, Dr. Mara Lane operates a discreet underground clinic, offering solace to those seeking escape from their pasts. Haunted by personal tragedy, Mara has abandoned the sterile world of academia for a shadowy existence, using advanced neuroscience to dull pain and selectively erase trauma. But when powerful CEO Elias Thorne arrives requesting the complete removal of a deeply fractured, seemingly manipulated memory, Mara is thrust into a dangerous conspiracy that challenges her ethics and threatens to expose her hidden practice.

As Mara delves into Thorne's mind, she uncovers a "ghost memory"—a chilling fragment of a traumatic event surgically isolated from its context, bearing the undeniable signature of external, malicious interference. Her investigation leads her to Project Chimera, a mythical black-market network of "neural architects" rumored to rewrite realities for the elite. Forced into a precarious alliance with Thorne, a man wrestling with the violation of his own mind, Mara finds herself battling not just for her client’s truth, but for the very integrity of memory itself in a city built on curated narratives and forgotten histories.

Driven by the horrifying discovery that Project Chimera’s reach extends to her own family’s tragic past, Mara joins forces with an uncompromising investigative journalist and leverages her unique skills to strike back. Their target: Kael, the ruthless architect behind Chimera and Thorne’s shattered memory. From infiltrating heavily guarded facilities to navigating a treacherous "whisper network" of manipulated individuals, Mara and her allies embark on a high-stakes mission to expose the truth, dismantle Kael’s empire of lies, and ensure that the devastating cost of rewriting the past is finally paid.