The Debt of Lost Winters

Jude is a Memory-Bailiff-an agent tasked with repossessing memories from debtors who can't pay what they owe. Childhoods, first loves, fleeting happiness-everything has a price. Jude doesn't remember his own past. And that makes him perfect for the job. But when a routine extraction reveals a hidden memory of a brutal murder, Jude is pulled into a conspiracy far beyond unpaid debts. A powerful corporate network is harvesting human minds, turning the poor into living processors, and rewriting reality itself.
As the truth fractures around him, Jude must navigate a world where: memories can be altered identities can be fabricated and even guilt can be bought Hunted by enforcers, betrayed by the system, and haunted by memories that aren't his own, Jude must uncover the truth before his mind is wiped clean forever. Because in this city.The past is not just something you remember. It's something they own.