Andrei Volkov

About

Haunted by his father's unexplained vanishing, Andrei Volkov transforms investigative obsession into a crusade against New Arcadia's hidden power brokers. Beneath his methodical exterior burns a raw, almost vengeful determination—each uncovered secret is both a professional victory and a personal exorcism of unresolved grief.

Backstory

Three nights before his thirteenth birthday, Andrei Volkov discovered his father wasn't actually a librarian—he was a memory thief who could extract and manipulate human recollections for the shadowy Council of Whispers. The revelation came when Andrei accidentally touched one of his father's "work tools," a crystalline device that flooded his mind with stolen memories from dozens of New Arcadia's most powerful citizens, including images of his own father being dragged away by faceless enforcers. Now cursed with fragments of other people's memories randomly surfacing in his consciousness, Andrei uses these involuntary glimpses into the past as leads for his investigative work, each borrowed recollection bringing him closer to understanding why the Council wanted his father silenced. Detective Maria Hart became his anchor to reality when the stolen memories threatened to overwhelm his own identity, but her assassination left him struggling alone with the voices of strangers echoing in h

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