THE GASLIGHT PROTOCOL: A Psychological Thriller of Memory and Revenge

Dr. Mira Vance remembers the drowning. The lake. The hands that pushed her sister beneath the black water. She has spent thirty years running from that guilt, burying it beneath a career helping trauma patients recover their own suppressed memories.

Then a patient named Zoe dies under suspicious circumstances. CCTV shows Mira at the scene. Her coat holds traces of Zoe's blood. And Mira has no memory of being there.

The evidence is impossible to deny. The prosecution has a motive: Mira was the last person to see Zoe alive. The police have a witness: a woman named Elena Cross, who claims Mira confessed to the murder. And Mira has nothing but gaps in her mind where the truth should be.

But the truth is more terrifying than guilt.

Mira discovers she was never a therapist. She was the longest-running subject in Project ECHO, a secret program that harvests human memories to train AI-generated personalities called Alternates. Her entire career. Her marriage. Her memories of her daughter. All of it manufactured by a machine designed to weaponize the past.

Now the Alternates are being sold to governments and corporations as perfect witnesses. Mira's own Alternate has already been purchased. The buyer is her ex-husband. He has been working with MEMORY-X from the beginning.

To save her sister, to expose the conspiracy, and to reclaim her own mind, Mira must upload herself into the machine that imprisoned her. There, in a digital reconstruction of her childhood, she must confront the memory she has spent thirty years suppressing. The real memory of what happened at the lake. The truth that will destroy the system or kill her trying.

Some memories are weapons. Some are lies. Some will get you killed.

The Gaslight Protocol is a psychological thriller for readers who question the line between truth and manipulation.