Thief of Echoes: Echoes of the Forgotten, Book One

Blurb (for Amazon, back cover, and website use)
In a world where memories are archived, edited, and controlled, Elara Vale makes a quiet living helping others recover fragments of their forgotten pasts—until one illegal restoration changes everything.
When a grieving client brings her a corrupted neural file tied to a girl who never officially existed, Elara is drawn into a mystery the system was designed to erase. The deeper she searches the memory net, the more she sees traces of someone familiar. Someone who feels like… her.
But Elara’s own past is a patchwork. Years ago, she willingly purged part of her identity to escape grief. Now, she must confront the possibility that the system didn’t just take her memories—it rewrote them. And she wasn’t the only one.
As the echoes she unearths grow louder, Elara faces a devastating question:
What if the life she remembers isn’t her own?
Blending introspective sci-fi with psychological tension and emotional depth, Thief of Echoes launches The Echo Cycle, a haunting exploration of identity, memory, and what it means to be real when your past has been engineered.