Emma's Lullaby

This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Emma Layla woke up into a life she couldn't remember, where identity seemed like an echo from afar and memories were fragile. She had nothing but questions in a world where her history was stolen from her and ruins surrounded her because a reality was broken. Emma had a sudden friendship with Lilian, an adolescent girl tormented by forgetting her own life. The two must navigate their way through an alien and hostile world in which nightmare and nostalgia are undistinguishable.

They are putting together fragments of their memories, like shattered glass, as they go through emotional and physical hardships, finding hints leading to their forgotten past. With every step, they get a step closer to the truth, but each new discovery makes the world one bit more dangerous. They have to confront not only the dangers lurking in the dark but also the apprehension that may come with knowing their past was too traumatic to remember.

Their attempt to retrieve their memories makes Emma and Lilian realize that the link between them is much deeper than they had ever imagined; hence, the struggle for their survival is equal to the struggle to understand themselves. But the truth of the risk is not just the lost past but the eerie nostalgia beckoning them into a world from which there may be no looking back-where remembering might be the ultimate cost.