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The Memory Eater
Paperback
Series: Neural Sins, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lyra Vance is the most feared Interrogation Artist in Neo-Alexandria - the woman who walks into a chamber in black leather gloves and walks out with a confession streaming above her head for nine hundred million strangers. She doesn't need a knife. She has their memories.
Kael Strade is the ghost she doesn't remember erasing.
Two years ago, Lyra signed a form authorizing AstraVeyne's Eidolon program to scrape six months of her life out of her skull. Six months of a man with scarred hands and a quiet voice and a war he wouldn't name. He let her do it. He paid them to be thorough. He told himself it would keep her safe.
Then a body turns up in a penthouse forty-two floors above the city - a body Kael put there - and the inspector assigned to the case walks back into a room her body still remembers, even if her mind doesn't.
He has been watching her for two years. He is done watching.
What unfolds is a slow, ruinous war fought across rain-slick spires and underground sprawls: a stolen marriage neither of them is allowed to remember, a corporation that turns memory into a weapon, a dossier that could burn an empire - and a man who will commit every sin in the catalogue to put a brand back on the only woman who ever made him feel human.
He learned my body before he learned my name. He erased himself to keep me. And God help me - when I remembered him, I let him stay.
One-click if you love:
- Morally black antiheroes who beg on their knees and mean it
- Cyberpunk neon, neural implants, and dystopian megacorporations
- Amnesia, obsession, and the body remembering what the mind cannot
- Marriage that was erased and has to be earned back
- Praise kink, knife play, possessive bites, and a shower scene that needs its own warning label
- Enemies-to-lovers-to-say my name when you ruin me
- A slow-burn HEA in a house by the water, with a half-broken dog and one weapon in every drawer
For readers of Penelope Douglas, Ana Huang, Rina Kent, and Pierce Brown.
18+. Dark romance. Standalone HEA with a complete arc. Series world continues in Neural Sins, Book Two.
Content note: explicit sexual content, on-page violence, captivity and interrogation themes, knife play, memory manipulation, grief, and a hero who built the cage before he ever asked to be let into it.
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