In a near-future megacity where memories can be bought, sold, and stolen, black-market dealer Tara Lin trades other people's pasts to keep her comatose sister alive. But when a mysterious client delivers a memory that shouldn't exist - a war erased from history - Tara becomes the most wanted fugitive in New Babel.
As she unravels a conspiracy buried deep in the world's neural network, Tara discovers a truth more dangerous than any data breach: she helped erase the war herself. Now her own stolen memories may be the only key to restoring the truth - and humanity's collective mind.
Pursued by Eidolon, the corporation controlling global memory infrastructure, Tara must descend into the digital underworld of memory hackers, data ghosts, and forgotten soldiers. What begins as a survival chase becomes a battle for the very nature of reality - and the freedom to remember.