Scentence: The First Recall

Project Synopsis

Scentence: The First Recall opens inside Scentence, a near-future company that sells scent-authored memory retrieval as a miracle of healing and fidelity. Its most gifted architect is Iven Korr, a scientist whose work can reconstruct lost moments with frightening emotional precision while he privately carries an older grief at home with his younger sister, Lira.

The book begins with a child remembering the wrong smell in a hallway after family tragedy, then widens into a corporate-science thriller about what happens when remembered life becomes a commercial system. Public demos prove how powerful recall can be, but the same breakthroughs that restore intimacy also tempt leadership toward correction, authorship, and control.

As Iven pushes deeper into the field, a recurring signature keeps returning: lavender and ozone. It links the field, the old hallway, and the strange reciprocal pressure between Iven's memories and Lira's. What begins as a mystery about scent turns into a larger discovery about shared routes, continuity anomalies, and the possibility that memory can persist between bonded people in ways the company was never supposed to admit.

That discovery makes the novel both intimate and dangerous. Board members, founders, and compliance machinery start treating the work less like therapy and more like an infrastructure for shaping acceptable lives. Archives are hidden, routes are staged for destruction, and institutional language begins closing over the truth even while Iven tries to preserve it.

By the end, the book has become the ignition point for the full trilogy: a story about grief, siblings, corporate memory politics, and the violence of systems that would rather rewrite a narrative than let it remain honestly alive.

Tone & Themes

• Near-future science fiction built around scent, memory, and grief
• Sibling loyalty as the emotional core of the larger conspiracy
• The ethics of retrieval versus correction
• Institutions using language to soften violence
• A trilogy-scale mystery seeded through lavender, ozone, and continuity routes

At a Glance

• Author: Matthew Sparkles.
• Format: Fiction / novel / EPUB.
• Series: Book one of the Scentence trilogy.
• Status: Complete; Amazon publication pending.
• Domain: scentence.sparkleserver.site.