The past is never dead. It's not even past.Rian Solis is a ghost in a city that never forgets.
In the vertical megalopolis of Aonach Mór, where five hundred and eighty million souls live under a ceiling of chemical rain and permanent twilight, memory is the ultimate currency. As a top-tier neural extraction specialist, Rian's job is clinical: plug in, siphon the data, and walk away. He's efficient, cold, and possessed of a tactical mind that processes threats in milliseconds. He believed he was a man with a history-a former military medic with a dishonorable discharge and a conscience.
He was wrong.
During a high-stakes heist in the sublevels of Mnemosyne Tower, Rian's path collides with Kaelen Venn, a freelance memory thief hunting for the mother who no longer knows her name. When a routine extraction spirals into a lethal betrayal by Rian's own handlers, the two are forced into an uneasy alliance in the flooded graveyards of Sector Zero.
As Rian's body heals at a rate that defies biology, a terrifying truth begins to surface from the neural static. The flashes of a three-legged dog, a woman's humming in a sunlit kitchen, and the weight of a medal he never earned aren't memories-they're imprints.
Rian isn't a man. He's Subject 047.
He is a biological clone, decanted from a replicator and programmed with the life of a scientist who has been in stasis for thirty years. And he isn't the only one. Across the city, in the shadows of every extraction suite and corporate boardroom, the Ouroboros-a philosophical death cult seeking "True Extinction"-is watching. They don't want to sell memories; they want to delete identity itself so completely that no backup can ever restore it.
Now, hunted by the first copy-the embittered Subject 001-and guided by coordinates to a source that shouldn't exist, Rian must choose. Will he remain the weapon he was designed to be, or will he fight for the few real things he has left: a mentor who is also a copy, a woman who held a knife to his throat and woke him up, and a safe word that represents his only true freedom?
In a world of infinite copies, how do you find the original soul
Why readers will love The Mnemonic:
Immersive Biometric Noir: Experience the world through Rian's eyes with a clinical, analytical perspective where every pulse spike and environmental baseline is cataloged.
High-Concept Techno-Thriller: A grounded exploration of cloning and neural engineering that asks: if your memories are fake, is your love real?
Visceral Action: From Muay Thai-infused combat to high-speed escapes through collapsed arcologies, the stakes are as physical as they are psychological.
A Non-Traditional Bond: A complex, evolving relationship between Rian, Kaelen, and Marcus that defies corporate programming and centers on mutual survival.
THE MNEMONIC is the explosive first book in the Unremembered Sequence. Perfect for fans of Blade Runner 2049, Cyberpunk 2077, and the grit of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon.
The Unremembered Sequence
The Main Arc:
Book 1: The Mnemonic - Available Now
Book 2: The Template - Late Summer 2026
Book 3: The Unremembered - Forthcoming
Short Fiction: Dive deeper into Aonach Mór with bridge stories exploring the shadows of the sequence:
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
