In the floating city of Ularia, memories are currency?and truth is negotiable.
Every citizen is bound to a Lithscript, a memory-stone that records their past, their identity, their very soul. Forget a mistake? Sell it. Lose someone? Erase them. The Memorysmiths?the most powerful guild in the city?have turned the trade of memories into a godlike craft, controlling history, loyalty, and fate itself.
But seventeen-year-old Aira Veyne has no Lithscript. No memories. No past. Found wandering the Ash Markets with only a strange sigil carved into her palm, she's taken in by a secretive order of rogue Memorysmiths. There, she discovers an unsettling truth: she is not memoryless by accident?she was made that way.
Because Aira is a rare kind: a Chrono-Smith?capable of seeing the forgotten, forging false pasts, and accessing something no one dares speak of?the Forbidden Memory. A mythical echo of time itself.
As the ruling Guild prepares to unleash a memory plague to rewrite the collective mind of Ularia, Aira is thrust into a race against time, shadowed by a boy who remembers every version of the truth, and hunted by a masked figure who knows who she really is?and what she's meant to destroy.
To save the city, Aira must uncover the truth no one remembers.
But in Ularia, even memories can lie.
