MNEMIS : The City of Memories

In the city of Mnemis, memories are currency. The rich buy the experiences of a thousand lifetimes. The poor sell their childhoods to pay rent. And the Blanks — those whose Echo scores have hit zero — don't legally exist at all. Xander has never sold a single memory. In a world where everyone sells, that makes him dangerous. By night, he is a memory thief — breaking into Vaults to steal back what the system took from the powerless. By day, he is a ghost, hunted by the Vault Authority for what he knows and what he carries. But when Xander steals a black vial from the most secure Vault in Mnemis, he sees something that shatters everything he believed about himself: a memory of his own childhood that someone else was keeping. A memory that proves he was experimented on. A memory that proves his past was stolen before he was old enough to protect it. As Xander unravels the conspiracy at the heart of the Echo system, he discovers the most devastating truth of all — the person who sold his memories wasn't a monster. She was his mother. And she did it to save his life. Now Xander must choose: expose the truth and destroy the system — at the cost of the only memories he has left — or protect what remains of himself and let the world keep burning. MNEMIS is a story about identity, sacrifice, and the terrifying question at the heart of every human life: if you lose everything you remember, are you still you?