Miles Kendrick can remember the people who never existed.

In Neo-Kyoto, a city where neon bleeds through the rain and reality fractures at the edges, temporal investigator Miles Kendrick discovers something impossible: a device that rewrites human identity across timelines. When it's recovered from a vanished researcher at an abandoned viaduct, Miles becomes the first detective to investigate crimes that haven't been committed yet—and victims who don't remember being erased.

Project Chimera was supposed to be theoretical research. Instead, it's become a shadow operation within Chronos Division, quietly optimizing citizens by collapsing their alternate selves into single, compliant versions. Forty-seven people have already been rewritten. Forty-seven lives erased and replaced with something more... manageable.

But Miles is different. Exposure to the device has made him sensitive to temporal manipulation. He can see the overlapping versions of people—the identities they used to be before someone decided they needed to be someone else. And now he's being hunted by the same people who've been rewriting reality.

With the help of Dr. Elena Markov, a researcher who exists in seventeen different versions simultaneously, Miles must uncover who's really running Project Chimera before they rewrite him into someone who doesn't ask questions. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes the conspiracy goes back forty years—and his own father was one of the architects.

In a world where memories can't be trusted and identity is just another variable to optimize, Miles Kendrick must become the one constant that refuses to change. He'll remember everyone they try to erase. Even if it costs him everything.

Perfect for fans of Altered Carbon, Recursion by Blake Crouch, and Dark Matter. Chronos Detective combines noir detective fiction with mind-bending temporal science fiction in a fast-paced thriller that questions the nature of identity itself.