MARA VALE

A suspenseful, witty and emotionally charged psychological techno-thriller about memory, identity and the people we choose to trust.Mara Vale has always trusted what she remembers.The flat. The work. The friendships. The irritating loose floorboard she steps over every morning. The small rituals that make her life feel unquestionably hers.Then an envelope arrives.Do you remember the first light you ever loved?What begins as an impossible question draws Mara into a past that refuses to stay where she left it - a missing day, a hidden laboratory and a series of names that should mean nothing to her.Except they do.With her fiercely loyal best friend Aiko beside her, Mara begins pulling at the threads of her own life. But the more she remembers, the less certain she becomes that memory can tell us who we are.As questions of identity, consciousness and free will begin to surface, Mara must decide what she is willing to uncover - and what she may have been created to forget.Some truths have been hidden from Mara.Others, she hid from herself.And somewhere, a door is waiting to be opened.