Echoes of Ash

In a near-future Atlantic Federation, a covert state program uses memory-wipe biotechnology to erase the criminal pasts of convicted offenders, offering them blank-slate identities. But when reformed subject Kaelen Vance is reintroduced into society, he unknowingly falls in love with Mira Strand, the niece of the woman he once killed. As fragmented memories bleed through, he must uncover the truth before the program's handlers silence him forever.