The Memory Merchant

In the flooded ruins of Arcadia's Drowning Districts, Tobias Blackwood makes his living trading in other people's most precious moments. First kisses. Wedding nights. The taste of love before it turned to loss. For two years, he's dealt in secondhand feeling while keeping his own heart locked safely away—ever since the woman he loved died asking too many questions about a conspiracy someone wanted buried.

Then a stranger walks through his door.

She calls herself Seraphina Vale, and she's willing to pay a fortune for something money shouldn't be able to buy: the memory of being truly desired. As Tobias assembles a collection of humanity's most intimate experiences to sell her, he finds himself drawn to her strange hunger for authenticity—her wonder at sensations she claims never to have felt, her desperate need to understand what makes love real.

But the closer they become, the more Tobias realizes that Seraphina isn't quite what she seems. And in a city where memories can be bought, sold, and stolen, where corporate power reaches into even the most private moments of the heart, the truth about who she really is might be the most dangerous secret of all.

Some transactions cost more than credits. Some purchases can never be returned.

A noir cyberpunk romance about desire, deception, and what it truly means to feel something real.