A father races to save his son from a genetic edit that's rewriting children's memories, only to discover the fault lies devastatingly close to home. A Corruption of Memory is a twisty science fiction suspense novel full of family secrets, corporate intrigue, and mind-bending tech set in a future hauntingly familiar to our own.

A genetic edit was meant to save humanity. Instead it unleashed a nightmare.

Children across the settled stars are being flooded by memories that aren't their own. For Marius Steel, scorned son of the edit's late creator, the disaster turns personal when his young son begins to take on the personality of someone else. Marius' twin sister, Tess, despairs as the family gene-editing company she now runs, teeters on the brink of collapse. 

Forced into an uneasy alliance, the twins race to undo the catastrophe.​ But as they dig into their father’s archives, they come to the shocking realization he may have committed something far more sinister than a mistake. And if they can’t fix it, the cost will be the future of humanity itself.

A Corruption of Memory is the first book in the Syndicate of Stars series. Perfect for fans of J.S. Dewes, Blake Crouch and John Scalzi.

Jacqueline Thorpe grew up reading Asimov, Bradbury, Herbert and all the sci-fi greats in her father's library. She fell hard for cyberpunk and loves new authors such as Leckie, Jemisin and Muir. In her own writing, Jacqueline blends character-driven tension with cutting-edge gene-tech and corporate machinations into cinematic worlds where every technological advance comes with great promise—and great peril.

Jacqueline spent years as a financial journalist, working for Bloomberg, the National Post, and Reuters, where she learned the best stories are often torn from the headlines.

Jacqueline's short stories have been published in Polar Borealis, a Canadian science fiction magazine, and Emptiness: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction.