Patient Zero A Thriller of Erased Memories What if your entire life was a lie... and the person who built it is the one you called "Mother"? Dr. Emma Carter spends her days unlocking her patients' buried traumas. But when a man's nightmare about a woman in a yellow dress triggers her own blackouts, the walls of her perfect world start crumbling. A hidden journal. A locked basement door. A child's handwriting she doesn't Lily knows the secret. Forced back to the decaying house she fled years ago, Emma uncovers chilling photographs of children with empty eyes, tapes of forced "therapy," and files proving her mother wasn't saving lives—she was rewriting them. Emma was the first. Patient Zero. The original success. The Institute that perfected the memory-erasing protocol is still operating. They're watching. They say she's unstable. They say the memories are delusions. They want her back on the table. But Emma remembers fragments the car crash that stole her real parents, the voice that reprogrammed her, the little girl who escaped... and the one still trapped. With an unlikely ally from her erased past, Emma must infiltrate the place that broke her—before they finish what they started. One woman fights to reclaim the identity they stole. But in a world where memories can be deleted, how do you know what's real?