Red Ivory

Nova Childs is the perfect recruit—keen, unreadable, and already missing pieces she can't name. Kenshaw calls it advancement. Nova calls it a lie that breathes. Inside the corporation's glass corridors, a weapon is being finished: TDMP—Temporal Displacement & Memory Patterning. It doesn't just erase. It rewrites. And Nova's talent for mapping desire makes the system lethal. Before she's fully theirs, a decommissioned agent crosses her path: Madalyn Heart—once Kenshaw's best manipulator, fired when TDMP made her obsolete. Before release, Madalyn whispers two words to Nova: Snow Valley. There's ore in that valley that makes implanted memories glitch, and Madalyn spends two years building a life there—part refuge, part trap. As Nova is paired with field operative Greg Holland, attraction becomes evidence. What they feel may be love—or code. When Nova uncovers her own deletion order, she runs. Kenshaw answers with Eclipse, a plan to scale memory warfare, and deploys Aurora Spear toward Snow Valley. Set in a world where barcodes flash like halos and heartbeats tick at a golden-ratio rhythm, Red Ivory is a razor-edged origin story about control, desire, and the price of remembering. There are no clean heroes here—only people weaponizing what they can't bear to lose. Prequel to the K. Crimson Code series. Leads directly into Love & Lies: Heart of Cold.