The Memory Thief by CD Corrigan | Streets of Nox Valar Book 1
Cypress Monroe: shapeshifter, spymaster, dearly departed.
Cypress went to her grave having discovered a plot to overthrow her Queen — and her paramour. Now her soul scours the realm between life and death for a way to get word to the living before it’s too late.
Dimereial, an angel of redemption, has an offer for Cypress. Relieve a few fellow souls of their worst memories before they shuffle on, and Cypress can be put before the right people in time to save her beloved. Memory theft is a heinous crime in Nox Valar; but if it’s done to save the living and dead alike, what’s the harm?
Rasa’s first memory, her only memory, is crashing to the Ashen Fields, a flash of screaming soulfire and momentous impact. Then she was fighting, beset by tattered shadows that clawed and scratched and wailed as she tore their essence from them. Secan, a shepherd of lost souls, found her there. Amidst a mound of sundered undead, he inherited his hardest task yet: trying to guide a soul that doesn’t know itself.