by Its Me Leo
Every night at midnight, someone is forgotten. Their photographs change. Their names vanish from records. Their families forget they ever existed. The people of Elyria call them the Forgotten—and believe they are simply the price of a peaceful world. Nineteen-year-old Kael Veyrin has never questioned that truth. Until the night a girl appears outside the third-floor window of the Royal Archive. She knows his name. She knows things about his childhood that no stranger could possibly know. And before disappearing into the darkness, she leaves him a message: Do you remember me? The next morning, nobody remembers the girl ever existed. Nobody except Kael. As Kael searches for answers, he uncovers forbidden records, erased histories, and a mysterious power hidden inside his own memories. The deeper he goes, the more impossible the truth becomes. The Forgotten may not be dead. The Ministry of Memory may not be the enemy. And the girl Kael remembers may have been waiting for him for far longer than he realizes. Because seven years ago, Kael forgot something. Something the entire world was desperate to keep forgotten. And now, whatever he once helped creat
