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A Novel · Science Fiction

Memory Scars.

In a future where memories can be extracted, sold, and overwritten, a black-market memory surgeon discovers a scar in her own mind — a memory someone erased on purpose, and is now killing to keep buried.

A Novel
Memory Scars
Lucas Branson
Chapter One
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Meet the author

A story written close.

Lucas Branson spent a decade writing about neuroscience before he started writing fiction about it. Memory Scars grew out of a question that wouldn't leave him alone: if you could sell a memory, what would people pay to forget — and who would profit from making sure they never remembered why.

This is his debut novel and the first book in the Memory Scars series. He lives with three hard drives of scrapped drafts and a strong opinion about how memory technology should never actually be built.

Inside

Inside the book

Not a blurb — a book.

Memory Scars unfolds in three parts, tracing one memory surgeon's descent from black-market fixer to the one person who might unravel the system that built her.

Part I

The Extraction

Reya Voss makes her living pulling other people's worst memories out of their heads. Her latest job goes wrong when the memory she's extracting turns out to be one of her own.

Part II

The Scar

Reya traces the erased memory back to the corporation that trained her — and realizes the scar wasn't an accident. Someone wanted her to forget on purpose.

Part III

The Overwrite

With the people who erased her closing in, Reya has one chance to reclaim what's hers — before her own mind is rewritten for good.

108
Pages
One
Book in Series
2026
Publication Year
30
Day Return
"You can erase a memory. You can't erase what it made you become."
From Part II — Memory Scars
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Memory Scars

A Science Fiction Novel · Book One

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Reader notes

Early readers have written

"I read the first fifty pages in one sitting and then had to put it down just to catch my breath. The world feels lived-in, not explained."

Priya N., early reader

"Reya is the kind of protagonist you don't fully trust and can't stop rooting for anyway. The twist in Part II wrecked me."

Marcus D., early reader

"Branson writes memory-tech like he's lived inside it. Smart, fast, and genuinely unsettling in the best way."

Elena F., early reader

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When does it come out?

Memory Scars releases in 2026.

Is this part of a series?

Yes — this is Book One.

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