The Memory Thief

Cypress Monroe: shapeshifter, spymaster, dearly departed.

Cypress went to her grave having discovered a plot to overthrow her queen— and her paramour. Now, her soul scours the realm between life and death for a way to get word to her beloved before it’ s too late.

Dimereial, an angel of redemption, has an offer for Cypress. If she can relieve a few fellow souls of their worst memories before they shuffle on, Cypress will have an audience with the right people in time to save her lover. Memory theft is a heinous crime in Nox Valar, but if it’ s done to save the living and dead alike, what’ s the harm?

Rasa’ s first memory, her only memory, is crashing in the Ashen Fields, a flash of screaming soulfire and momentous impact. Then she was fighting, beset by tattered shadows that clawed and scratched and wailed as she tore their essence from them. Secan, a shepherd of lost souls, found her there. Amidst a mound of sundered undead, he’ s inherited his hardest task yet: trying to guide a soul that doesn’ t know itself.

C. D. is an artist, game designer, furball father, and the creator of Relict RPG, a free tabletop game system. He’ s had a lifelong obsession with all things sci-fi and fantasy and wrote his first novel when he was 13. It was terrible, but he’ d gotten better since then.