Reign of Forgotten Things

Some queens are erased. Some are buried. Some refuse to stay dead.

In the layered city of Vireya, memory is currency, weapon, and law. The powerful trade in stolen lives. The poor survive on what they can forget. And history itself is edited by those who fear what it might reveal.

Sixteen-year-old Liria Wynn is a thief of memory shards — fragments of other people’s lives sold on the black market to those who crave pleasure, power, or escape. She has no past of her own. No childhood. No name before the city swallowed her.

Until the night she steals the wrong memory.

The shard does not show her another life.

It remembers her.

It whispers a name the world has tried to erase: Seris — a queen blamed for a war no one fully remembers, a ruler history calls a monster, a woman who vanished in fire and silence. As Liria begins to experience visions of crowns, blood, and kneeling armies, she realizes the truth is far more dangerous than legend.

Someone is hunting the shard.

The rulers of Vireya want it destroyed.

The Whisperers want it silenced.

And the immortal king who sits on the throne wants to own whatever power it contains.

But the shard is not a weapon.

It is a will.

As Liria is drawn deeper into the city’s hidden history, she must choose between survival and truth, between being a vessel for the past and becoming something the world cannot control. Because Seris was not erased by accident — and forgetting her may be the greatest lie ever told.