From the author
This book began with a simple but frightening question: what would be left of us if our memories were taken away?
WHAT IF YOUR LOVE IS JUST A BUG IN THE SYSTEM?
We live in a world where our entire lives – photos, correspondence, stories – are stored on servers, in the cloud, as zeros and ones. We trust digital ghosts to keep our souls safe. But what if one day they decide that some part of it shouldn’t exist? What if one day you wake up and the most important person in your life is just a broken file that the system decided to delete?
This story is about a love that is stronger than a 404 error. About fighting for the right to remember in a world that desperately wants to forget and simplify everything. It’s a journey into the heart of what makes us human: our scars, our losses, our imperfect but infinitely precious memories.
I don’t know if Kael is real. But his pain is. I hope you feel it.
And maybe after reading this, you’ll hug the ones you love a little tighter.
Just in case.
Kael Vance is a data archaeologist. His job is to resurrect dead data. His world is a perfect, verified reality. His life is Elara.
But one morning he wakes up in a world where Elara never existed.
All records have been erased. All memories of loved ones are blank. The empty photo frame on his desk is the only evidence of his rapidly slipping sanity. The system says he was always alone.
But Kael remembers. He remembers her laugh, her touch, her scent. That memory is the only thing he has left, and it’s his death sentence.
Because they’re coming for him. Faceless Purifiers whose job it is to erase mistakes in reality. And Kael is the biggest mistake of all.
To survive and prove that his love was real, he’ll have to plunge into the digital underground, trust those who trust no one, and learn the terrible truth: reality doesn’t disappear. It is being forgotten.
“The Man Who Wasn’t Real’ is a dizzying sci-fi thriller where “The Matrix” collides with “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” A novel that will make you question your own memories. Are you ready to remember?
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