The Memory Thief

In 2087, memories are currency. The rich buy happy childhoods. The poor sell their grief to pay rent. And at the bottom of society, memory thieves stalk the streets, ripping recollections from unwilling minds. Kai Tanaka is the best. He can steal five years of your past while you walk past him on the street. You wouldn’t even blink. But when Kai steals a memory he shouldn’t have — a fragment of a military experiment erased from every official record — suddenly he is running from everyone. The government wants him dead. Corporations want to dissect his brain. And the woman whose memory he stole? She has been dead for fifteen years. But her ghost keeps appearing in his apartment, telling him secrets that could start a war. Kai must unlock the stolen memory before his own mind is wiped clean. In a world where your past can be taken, can you ever trust who you are?