The False Memory

Sophie Vale has spent most of her life doubting the one memory she cannot escape.

A woman screaming beneath surgical lights. Blood on her father's hands. Her mother repeating the same question until the hospital disappeared and a birthday party took its place.

White cake. Blue flowers. Nine candles.

Now Sophie wakes inside St. Adrian Medical Center with blood beneath her fingernails and no memory of how she got there. Her father insists she suffered another dissociative episode. Her mother claims the past is distorting what Sophie sees.

Then a woman connected to Sophie's childhood is found dead inside Room 018-a hidden surgical suite that officially does not exist.

The evidence points directly to Sophie.

Her DNA is beneath the victim's nails. Security footage shows her entering the room. A syringe containing an experimental memory drug is recovered nearby. And Sophie remembers holding the woman down.

But another recording proves Sophie was somewhere else at the exact same time.

Detective Mara Sloan and disgraced trauma therapist Dr. Elise Hart uncover a decades-old research program built around false memories, switched identities, and witnesses trained to distrust their own minds. At the center is Sophie's mother, renowned neuropsychologist Miriam Vale, whose experiments may reach far beyond one family-or one murder.

As bodies appear under the wrong names and fabricated evidence becomes indistinguishable from truth, Sophie discovers the most dangerous memory may not be the surgery, the blood, or the woman who died.

It may be her own identity.

Because Sophie had a twin.

One daughter was kept.

One was taken.

And no one remembers which one survived.

Fast-paced, dark, and filled with shocking reversals, The False Memory is Book Three of The Last Appointment Series, where every truth has been manipulated, every suspect has something to hide, and the person controlling the story is always one step ahead.