In a near-future megacity where memories can be bought, sold, and stolen, black-market dealer Tara Lin trades other people's pasts to keep her comatose sister alive. But when a mysterious client delivers a memory that shouldn't exist - a war erased from history - Tara becomes the most wanted fugitive in New Babel.As she unravels a conspiracy buried deep in the world's neural network, Tara discovers a truth more dangerous than any data breach: she helped erase the war herself. Now her own stolen memories may be the only key to restoring the truth - and humanity's collective mind.Pursued by Eidolon, the corporation controlling global memory infrastructure, Tara must descend into the digital underworld of memory hackers, data ghosts, and forgotten soldiers. What begins as a survival chase becomes a battle for the very nature of reality - and the freedom to remember.