Olivia Waite

Dorothy Gentleman lives and works in a city where memory is currency and memory theft is a crime that stings closer to home than the obvious mystery at hand. When a missing heirloom uncovers a thread that ties a respectable family to a string of unspoken harms, Dorothy follows the thread through the back doors of an old theater, the damp stacks of a forgotten library, and a coffee shop where the same melody repeats like a heartbeat. Every encounter—be it with a potential ally who mistrusts even her transparency or a rival investigator who respects her nerve—pulls her further into a tangle of secrets that refuse to lie still. As she pieces together the chain of manipulated memories, she must confront how far she’s willing to bend the truth for someone she believes in, and how much of herself she’s willing to lose to bring the past to light.