❝ My name is Norah Ryder, and I am seventeen years old. I turn eighteen in three weeks and live in Los Angeles with my two brothers, both younger. My parents are dead and I have no other immediate family, never have and don't currently have a romantic relationship, and find no reason to enjoy life. I'd like to apply for a new childhood. ❞
After the third World War left countries destroyed and tore apart the traditional government, a new group of rulers took place. Commonly known as the Nation, they installed countless new procedures in order to make the world a better and flawless place. One of the changes they made was known as the Memory Serum. At the age of eighteen, anyone with less than a perfect childhood was given the choice of completely erasing their memories in exchange for new ones. An almost eighteen year old living in Los Angeles, all Norah Ryder wants is a new childhood - but after a chance encounter has her changing her views, will she discover that the perfection she thought her world was comes with a strict price?
