In the city of Verenthia, memories are the most precious commodity—traded, stored, and guarded like gold. Elara, a sixteen-year-old Memory Keeper with an extraordinary gift to recall places and people forgotten by time itself, has lived a quiet life preserving fragmented histories. But when memories begin vanishing en masse from the city's Memory Vaults, reality itself starts to unravel. Citizens wake with missing years, relationships dissolve into strangers' faces, and the very architecture of