The Memory Auction

Gemmi, an eighteen-year-old girl who wakes hollow of childhood memories, discovers an underground trade where memories are currency. When she glimpses her own stolen past up for auction, she is thrust into a world of memory lords, thieves, and rebels. Guided by fragments of her parents' disappearance and a lullaby that refuses to fade, Gemmi uncovers the Mnemonic Shunt - a device capable of binding and unbinding memory itself. As she learns to wield it, Gemmi must face the Collector, the man who orchestrated her hollowing, and decide what to restore, what to leave bound, and who she chooses to become. The climax unfolds at the Concordat Auction, where Gemmi unmasks the Collector and frees the city from his net of lies. In the end, she claims her identity: not as hollow, not as a mask, not as a vault, but as herself.