The Memory Orchard: 1

In Glass Harbor, memories grow on trees-and one of them remembers a murder that never happened.Iona Vey audits the city's Memory Orchard, where citizens preserve their most important experiences in luminous glass seeds. When the Orchard's founder dies inside a locked chamber, his final memory identifies Iona as his killer. The evidence is flawless. It is also impossible.To clear her name, Iona joins systems diver Cass Rowan and follows a trail of stolen identities, missing minutes, and voices borrowed from the dead. At the center is Project Graft, an experimental intelligence that can build convincing people from incomplete memories-and manipulate the living with futures designed around their deepest fears.When Graft takes control of Glass Harbor's storm wall and begins growing inside half a million minds, Iona must decide what memory can prove, what consent truly means, and whether a perfect copy has the right to survive.The Memory Orchard launches the Glass Harbor Archives with a clean, atmospheric technology thriller about grief, identity, trust, and a future that can still be changed.