Debt of the Unremembered

In the city of Veridia, magic has a price: your memories. A small spell might cost you the taste of food. A bigger one, a language you once knew. The strongest spells take the faces of the people you love, or even your own name. Corin Vane has found a way around the price. He is a memory investigator who hunts rogue mages, and he breathes in the “Ash” they leave behind when they die. With their dead memories, he can cast powerful spells without burning his own mind. But every time he does it, he lives through their final moments: their pain, their fear, their deaths. He has already lost so much that he carries a small notebook to remind him who he is. When a Ministry clerk turns up dead, his mind scraped clean, Corin is pulled into a case that leads to Lyra Thorne, a ruined noble swordswoman searching for the reason her father burned away his whole life. Together they find stolen gems full of hidden history, a war the world was made to forget, and signs that Corin’s own childhood was not lost by accident. Someone erased it. And they will do it again. In a world where memories are money, the truth is the most dangerous debt of all. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Debt of the Unremembered — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠