The Lazarus Protocol

By Brian Dale Babiak MD

She paid to forget him. But her heart has a memory of its own.

Sloane Whitaker is a brilliant architect who designs buildings to withstand anything. But she couldn't engineer a fix for the cracks in her own shattered past. So, she did what any rational person in a world of futuristic tech would do: she hired TruForget Corp to erase the trauma, trading painful memories for a clean, orderly life. A life where she is safe. A life where she is alone.

Then a collision in a coffee shop changes everything.

Holden Nakamura is a stranger. A tall, protective man with a silver streak at his temple and eyes that see straight through the walls she's so carefully constructed. The connection is immediate, a dizzying, electric shock of recognition that makes no sense. He feels less like a new acquaintance and more like a ghost she's been waiting for.

Their pull is a glitch in the system, a gravitational force they can't fight. It's the shared dreams of a warehouse loft strung with fairy lights, the phantom sense of his hand in hers, the unnerving certainty that they aren't just meeting for the first time, but reconnecting across a chasm of lost time.

But the truth is more shocking than any forgotten memory. They were not strangers. They were lovers. They were fianc s. Their epic, passionate, and heartbreaking history was not just lost-it was stolen. Surgically removed by the very corporation that promised them peace, leaving them as unwitting subjects in a sinister experiment.

Now, with the clock ticking and a powerful enemy determined to bury its secrets, Sloane and Holden must decide what's more dangerous: uncovering the truth of the love they sacrificed, or rebuilding a future on a foundation of beautiful lies. Can a love so deep it was deemed a threat be the one thing that saves them, or will the real reason they chose to forget be the one fault line that brings them both crashing down for good?

A gripping, steamy, and achingly romantic page-turner, The Lazarus Protocol is a story of love as an act of resistance, memory as a battlefield, and two fractured souls discovering that even when the blueprints are gone, the heart remembers how to build its way home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FK9Q5DLZ
• ISBN13: 9798294493943
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"