Some memories stay.
Some are taken.
Some become something else.
Eira Valen was trained to read the dead.
As a Listener, she can touch bones and experience the final, most powerful memories of those who came before. Love, grief, obsession - all preserved, all controlled by the Order that raised her. She has spent her life turning other people's emotions into something measurable, something safe.
Until she meets the one person she cannot read.
Sable shouldn't exist.
She leaves no bones. No memory. No trace the Order can contain. And when she touches Eira, something impossible happens - memories don't appear.
They disappear.
Drawn into a connection she cannot analyze and cannot resist, Eira is forced to confront a truth far more dangerous than any anomaly:
Some people are not meant to be understood.
Some connections are not meant to leave you whole.
As the Order closes in and labels Sable a corruption that must be destroyed, Eira makes a choice that will cost her everything she has ever been.
Because if she cannot know Sable...
She will become her.
A haunting sapphic dark fantasy about memory, identity, and the dangerous intimacy of losing yourself in someone else.