Nova Childs is the perfect recruit-keen, unreadable, and already missing pieces she can't name. Kenshaw calls it advancement. Nova calls it a lie that breathes. Inside the corporation's glass corridors, a weapon is being finished: TDMP-Temporal Displacement & Memory Patterning. It doesn't just erase. It rewrites. And Nova's talent for mapping desire makes the system lethal. Before she's fully theirs, a decommissioned agent crosses her path: Madalyn Heart-once Kenshaw's best manipulator, fired when TDMP made her obsolete. Before release, Madalyn whispers two words to Nova: Snow Valley. There's ore in that valley that makes implanted memories glitch, and Madalyn spends two years building a life there-part refuge, part trap. As Nova is paired with field operative Greg Holland, attraction becomes evidence. What they feel may be love-or code. When Nova uncovers her own deletion order, she runs. Kenshaw answers with Eclipse, a plan to scale memory warfare, and deploys Aurora Spear toward Snow Valley. Set in a world where barcodes flash like halos and heartbeats tick at a golden-ratio rhythm, Red Ivory is a razor-edged origin story about control, desire, and the price of remembering. There are no clean heroes here-only people weaponizing what they can't bear to lose. Prequel to the K. Crimson Code series. Leads directly into Love & Lies: Heart of Cold.