Where Memories Lie - Paperback

One fractured partnership stands in the way of a magical conspiracy that threatens the system holding society together.

Elias Sinclair's memory magic has never lied to him. Until the night it did, and seven agents died in an explosion he should have seen coming. His partner Alex Sutton nearly died protecting him from the blast. Convinced his magic can't be trusted, Elias requested reassignment before Alex could ask the questions he couldn't answer.

Alex Sutton doesn't take partners anymore. His combat magic and six-year partnership with Elias made them one of the most effective teams in the Bureau, until Elias walked away without explanation. He's moved on. Or so he tells himself.

When infrastructure attacks begin tearing through Chicago, the Bureau forces them back together. The attackers aren't terrorists-they're ordinary people whose perceptions have been manipulated into seeing threats that don't exist, turned into weapons who die the moment they're used. Someone wants magic users to believe they're under attack. Someone wants them to fight back and seize control.

As the body count rises and the city fractures along magical lines, Elias and Alex are hunting an enemy with access to magic that shouldn't exist. The kind that can rewrite what people believe is real. As the city edges toward panic and buried secrets resurface, survival may depend on whether they can trust each other-and their magic-again.

Where Memories Lie is an urban fantasy thriller about broken friendships, weaponized memory, and the dangerous ties between magic and power.