Engram

In Absolon, crime is cured by erasing it. She is the surgeon who does the cutting. Her new patient swears she has cut him six times, and every time, he remembers her.

Neve Sorensen is the youngest memory surgeon ever certified for Ward Nine, the one prison a city without prisons still keeps. She believes in the cut. It ended guilt. It ended the bombing on Pier Seven that killed forty-one people, including her mother, because the man who set it has been cut down to the floor.

Now she has twenty-one days to map him for the Seventh, the cut no one has survived with a self left. Prisoner 0417 is scarred behind one ear and calm as stone. He looks at her hands before her face. He knows she counts to seven to keep her hands steady. He knows the knot she ties on her wrist every morning without knowing where she learned it.

Every walk through his memories pulls her deeper into a past that has been scraped out of her own head. Someone has been cutting Neve for years, and the only person who can tell her who is the man she came to erase.

An enemies-to-lovers dystopian romance with a steamy slow burn, dual POV and a mind-bending twist, for fans of Daggermouth, Silver Elite and Because I Killed Him. Book 1 of a complete trilogy; this couple's story runs through all three, with a happy-for-now ending and a sting you will not see coming.