Borrowed Skins - In The New World Identity Is Fluid Dangerously So

Claire Autumn Reid

Summary

In a fractured future where identity is a currency and memory is a weapon, a man wakes up in a crumbling tenement with no recollection of who he is—only a name blinking on his ID band: Cal Vinter. The world around him insists he’s a notorious enforcer for the regime, but the memories clawing at the edges of his mind tell a different story.
 
Hunted by the very system that once claimed to own him, Cal spirals into a reality he cannot trust—his face, his past, even the words he speaks feel rehearsed. As he searches for answers in the ruins of forbidden labs and forgotten rebellion, a stranger named Eris emerges from the shadows with a chilling proposition: the man known as Cal Vinter may not be real at all.
 
Across a city that breathes surveillance and bleeds silence, he uncovers a secret so devastating it threatens to unravel not only his sense of self, but the fabric of an entire regime built on controlled remembrance.
 
Who are we when everything we know about ourselves has been rewritten by design? And what happens when the man you’re running from… is you?

Available since: 08/13/2025.

Print length: 65 pages.

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