The Memory Merchant (Paperback)

Paperback. WHAT IF YOU COULD BUY A BETTER PAST?In a near-future city, memories have become a commodity.People sell painful memories to escape heartbreak, guilt, trauma, and regret. Wealthy clients purchase moments of happiness, adventure, and experiences they never actively lived. Behind it all is a discrete underground industry where memories can be extracted, transferred, altered, and traded.Elias Venn makes his living as a memory broker.He knows how to handle other people's pasts. He knows how to keep secrets. And above all, he knows never to become personally involved with a memory that isn't his.Then a mysterious woman walks into his office with an impossible request: sell a memory believing to a man who has been dead for fifteen years.There is only one problem.The memory belongs to Elias.As he begins investigating how it ended up in someone else's possession, Elias discovers that crucial parts of his childhood have been delicately erased. The deeper he goes, the more he realizes that his missing memories may not have been lost at all.Someone wanted him to forget.And someone is willing to do almost anything to make sure he never remembers why.THE MEOMERY MERCHANT is a gripping psychological thriller about memory, identity, manipulation, and the dangerous secrets hidden inside the past. If you enjoy atmospheric mysteries, near-future technology, buried secrets, and tweets that make you question what is real, this is a story you won't want to forget. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…