Their memories were real. They just weren’t their own.

A father races to save his son from a genetic edit that's rewriting children's memories, only to discover the fault lies devastatingly close to home. A Corruption of Memory is a twisty science fiction suspense novel full of family secrets, corporate intrigue, and mind-bending tech set in a future hauntingly familiar to our own.

A genetic edit was meant to save humanity. Instead, it unleashed a nightmare.

Children across the settled stars are being flooded by memories that aren’t their own.

For Marius Steel, estranged son of the edit’s late creator, the horror turns personal when his young son begins to take on the personality of someone else. Marius’ twin sister, Tess, despairs as the family gene-editing company she now runs, teeters on the brink of collapse. Forced into an uneasy alliance, the twins race to undo the catastrophe.

But as they dig into their father’s archives, they come to the shocking realization he may have committed something far more sinister than a mistake. Now they must find a way to fix the corruption, before an entire generation is trapped in someone else's past.

By Aurora Award-nominated writer, J.L. Thorpe, A Corruption of Memory is the first book in the Syndicate of Stars series.