Mind Reading

In a world where memories are currency, what would you pay to forget... or to remember who you really are? Lyra Vale is a memory-thief-an illegal "shifter" who trades in stolen pasts for clients desperate to forget pain, shame, or secrets. In the gleaming, glass-domed city of Virelia, where the privileged buy perfection and the broken are erased, Lyra has always played by her own rules-until the day she steals a memory that belongs to her. Now hunted by the system she once served and haunted by fragments of a past she doesn't remember choosing to forget, Lyra must unravel a conspiracy that runs deeper than she ever imagined. Because the truth buried in her mind could destroy the city-or set it free. But time is running out. And in Virelia, remembering the wrong thing can get you permanently erased.

In a city devoured by a chilling green plague, Jonathan awakens on the cold asphalt, disfigured and numb, yet strangely unconcerned. As soldiers clash with the grotesque "Greens"—his newfound colleagues—a shocking truth unravels. He is one of them, a zombie with a human mind, a beating heart, and an unimaginable power: the ability to command the very horde that seeks to consume humanity. Joined by other survivors, including the President's daughter who reveals a terrifying conspiracy of power and population control, with the rich out to Space and the poor left to rot. Will he succumb to the ravenous instincts of his new form, or embrace his unique mutation to save the last remnants of humanity from a fate worse than death? In a world where power engages in a tussle, Jonathan is the anomaly, the Alpha Project, with the power to either doom or deliver them all.