The Secondary Memory Event
A worldwide phenomenon leaves millions with complete memories of alternate lives, forcing public institutions to face a crisis that should be impossible.
About the book
When memory begins to remember what never happened.
Mara Ellery, a researcher of autobiographical memory, wakes remembering a seven-year-old daughter named June.
She remembers June’s laugh. Her drawings. Her fears. The way she once described a house with too many doors. But in the life Mara actually lives, June was never born.
As the phenomenon becomes known as the Secondary Memory Event, governments, scientists, and families struggle to understand what is happening. Mara soon discovers that these impossible memories are not random. They are connected to choices people never made, lives that should not exist, and a hidden system that may have learned how to use regret as a map.
Drawn into a mystery that reaches from private grief to public catastrophe, Mara must confront the most dangerous question of all:
What if the life you cannot forget was never meant to exist?