Buying Back Yesterday at the Midnight Market

By Kayla Ritchie

Thao Hall was born into a legendary family of artists, but the gift that once made her a prodigy has vanished. With the Hall family gallery drowning in debt and her future as an artist slipping away, Thao discovers a mysterious parchment containing coordinates to a place that should not exist-the Midnight Market.Hidden beyond the ordinary world, the Midnight Market is a supernatural marketplace where memories, emotions, experiences, and pieces of human identity can be bought and sold. Desperate to recover the artistic genius she has lost, Thao makes a dangerous bargain: seven days of extraordinary artistic ability in exchange for a precious memory from her childhood.At first, the bargain seems miraculous. Thao's paintings become brilliant, powerful, and impossible to ignore. Her family gallery begins to recover, and the world once again recognizes her talent. But the price of her success soon becomes impossible to ignore. Memories begin disappearing, her sense of self starts to weaken, and the Midnight Market continues to call her back.Thao discovers that her gift is not simply being returned to her. Something-or someone-is paying the real cost. A mysterious figure named Minh becomes central to the truth behind the Market, while the Hall family's connection to the supernatural exchange reveals a legacy built on bargains and stolen pieces of other lives.As Thao descends deeper into the Market, she learns that becoming a true masterpiece may require surrendering far more than a single memory. At the height of her success, she faces a choice between preserving her extraordinary talent and breaking the contract that has been consuming another human being.When she finally rejects the role prepared for her, Thao risks everything to stop the harvest, free Minh, and destroy the bargain that has controlled her family.Darkly imaginative and emotionally haunting, Buying Back Yesterday at the Midnight Market is a supernatural tale of art, memory, identity, family legacy, and the terrible price of getting back what you thought you had lost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKPQ68VP
• ISBN13: 9798182791007
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Kayla Ritchie
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"