The Memory Broker is a standalone novel by Jim Mergenthaler, published under Mergify Studios. It is a psychological thriller with a speculative edge: 68,024 words across 22 chapters, set in a city where the past itself is a service you can buy. This page is the book's home on the Mergify Studios site — what the story is, who wrote it, and where to get the ebook.
In the hyper-advanced metropolis of Veridian, trauma is treated as psychic clutter, extracted and edited by Memory Brokers for optimal emotional function. Kessler Vane, one of the city's most skilled — and ethically compromised — Brokers, accepts a lucrative commission from an elderly recluse named Elias Thorne: retrieve and curate his entire memory bank. Thorne claims someone else has been selectively editing his life narrative.
As Kessler digs into these manufactured memories, she begins experiencing flashes of her own forgotten past — fragments that don't belong to her current timeline. She uncovers a conspiracy implicating the Brokerage itself in a catastrophic truth about identity and selfhood. The Memory Broker is a memory-manipulation thriller built on an unreliable-narrator engine: the deeper Kessler goes into Thorne's edited life, the less she can trust the evidence of her own.
The Memory Broker is a standalone novel — no series commitment, one complete story. The book's records place it in psychological thriller and speculative fiction (FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological; FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense), written in English. Its 22 chapters run from "The Extraction" and "The Commission" through "The Fabricated Self," "Citywide Purge," and "The Reckoning" to the closing chapter, "Beyond the Archive" — a structure that follows Kessler's commission from a single client's memory bank to the truth about the Brokerage itself.
Jim Mergenthaler is the author of The Memory Broker and the name behind Mergify Studios, the independent American label and studio whose catalog this site carries. Readers who come to the book from the music side of the studio can start from the Mergify Studios homepage — and the studio's featured 2026 single has its own page, Man In The Black Hat.
The Memory Broker ebook is available through the Mergify Digital storefront on Whop, priced at $4.99: The Memory Broker on Whop. The ebook has also been submitted to Google Play Books and is pending that store's account review, per the BookWorks records — this page will be updated when that listing is live. However you read it, the Whop listing is the live route today.
No. It is a standalone novel by Jim Mergenthaler — one complete story in 22 chapters and 68,024 words, with no series commitment.
A psychological thriller with speculative-fiction elements: a memory-manipulation conspiracy thriller set in the fictional metropolis of Veridian, where professional Memory Brokers extract and edit trauma.
The ebook is live on Whop in the Mergify Digital storefront at $4.99. A Google Play Books listing has been submitted and is pending review.
Mergify Studios — the independent American studio behind this site, which publishes both its music catalog and its BookWorks titles.
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