The Forgetting Protocol (The Memory Wars)

She built the cure. Then she became the patient.

Dr. Margaret Williams spent three years building a device that could erase traumatic memories — a breakthrough that promised to heal veterans, trauma survivors, and anyone whose past was slowly destroying their present. The science was sound. The need was real.

And the pain she was running from was her own.

When Mags uses her own technology to erase the memories she can no longer carry, what begins as one session becomes two. Then four. Then something she cannot stop — and cannot remember starting. By the time the damage surfaces, she has nearly erased herself entirely.

She wakes up in a hospital with no device, no lab, and no research. The Pentagon has it all.

Now the same technology she built to heal people is being deployed on thirty veterans in a classified trial — and Mags is the only person alive who knows exactly what it will do to them. Silenced by federal agreement, discredited by the institution she trusted, and still fighting to reassemble the pieces of her own mind, she faces an impossible choice: stay quiet and survive, or speak out and lose everything she has left.

She forgot everything. The Pentagon remembered.

Book 1 of The Memory Wars trilogy.