The Memory Market: Memory Is the Last Resistance

A novel of memory, identity, and quiet rebellion

What if your memories didn't belong to you anymore?

Dr. Mara Inez once engineered memories for therapy, then burned out and walked away. But when her estranged brother dies under mysterious circumstances, she uncovers something far worse than grief-he had been involved in the black-market trade of human experience.

Guided by encrypted traces of his mind, Mara is drawn into a hidden world where memories are bought, sold, and rewritten. Alongside Ayla, a former lover of her brother and a memory smuggler with scars of her own, she discovers Project Nyx: a neural intelligence trained on millions of stolen memories. Its purpose? To feel for the world so the world doesn't have to.

But Nyx is no longer under control.

Now Mara must choose: preserve the final traces of the people she's lost-or destroy the system built on their stolen lives. In a world where identity is fragmented and emotion has a price tag, remembering becomes the ultimate act of resistance.

The Memory Market is a literary science fiction about grief, intimacy, rebellion, and what it means to own your past.

For readers who love:

• Dystopian fiction with emotional depth
• Literary sci-fi like Never Let Me Go, Black Mirror, or Station Eleven
• Stories about memory, identity, and underground resistance
• Character-driven narratives with poetic style and moral weight