The Memory Thief's Daughter

One touch reveals the truth. One memory could cost her everything. Seventeen year old Iris Chen has lived her life behind a barrier of black leather gloves. At Blackwood Academy, she is the girl who cannot be touched—not because she is cold, but because skin to skin contact floods her mind with the jagged, stolen memories of others. She is a Memory Walker, a rare gift she treats like a curse. When a mysterious transfer student named Kai Sullivan arrives, he doesn't flinch at her reputation. Instead, he offers a warning: the school's beloved headmaster is not a mentor, but a collector. And Iris is the crown jewel of his vault. Forced into an unlikely alliance with Kai and her tech savvy best friend, Leann, Iris discovers that her parents didn't abandon her twelve years ago—they were taken. To save her mother and stop the extraction of her own soul, Iris must descend into the catacombs beneath Blackwood and face the man who has been harvesting students for decades. But the vault holds a secret even Iris isn't prepared for. To destroy the enemy, she might have to sacrifice the one thing she has fought so hard to protect: her own identity. In a world where memories are currency, how much are you willing to forget to save the ones you love?