Rain and Neon Books in Order

The Memory Merchant

Sometimes the most real thing in your life is the one thing that shouldn't exist.

Set in the richly detailed Neon & Rain universe

Tobias Blackwood makes his living selling other people's memories. In the flooded ruins of what used to be New York City, he extracts intimate experiences—first loves, passionate nights, heartbreaking goodbyes—and sells them to anyone desperate enough to pay for borrowed emotions.

It beats making his own memories. Those just get you killed, like they did his partner Miranda.

Then she walks in.

Seraphina is beautiful in a way that doesn't belong in the Drowning Districts, offering more money than he's ever seen for memories of what it feels like to be truly loved. She claims she's never experienced real passion—which should be impossible for someone who looks like she stepped out of a corporate advertisement.

But when Tobias starts curating romantic memories for her, something unexpected happens. She doesn't just want to buy love—she wants to learn it. And despite every instinct screaming at him to stay professional, he starts teaching her.

Their connection is electric, intense, and completely forbidden. Why does she kiss him like it's her first time every time? Why do simple touches seem to overwhelm her? And why does falling for her feel like the most dangerous thing he's ever done?

When corporate security forces start hunting them through the rain-soaked streets, Tobias realizes that loving Seraphina might cost him everything. But losing her? That's not an option.

In a world where authentic emotion is rare and dangerous, sometimes you have to risk everything for the chance to feel something real.

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