Mortal Memory

By Zara Green

The Greek gods were never gone.

They survived in the stories people kept telling.

Every school lesson, painting, translation, and half-remembered myth kept their names alive. But thousands of years of retelling did more than preserve them. It shaped them.

Then Zara Green remembers a name that should not exist.

Dessa.

Zara has never read it. Never heard it. Yet she knows with impossible certainty that a woman is missing from stories where she once belonged.

And remembering her is enough to bring her back.

Unlike the gods whose identities have been reinforced and distorted by centuries of human memory, Dessa returns almost untouched by surviving mythology. She has fragments of a past, relationships she cannot fully explain, and no protection from a modern world already eager to decide what kind of goddess she must have been.

Because memory can preserve a person

It can also trap them.

As forgotten history begins resurfacing and ancient gods recognize someone humanity erased, Zara faces a problem with no clean answer: how do you help someone recover their story without becoming another person who writes it for them?

Mortal Memory is a contemporary mythological novel about forgotten gods, dangerous stories, and the difference between being remembered and being known.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKB15TWM
• ISBN13: 9798175384179
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"