In a world where everyone is ERASED at 18, Leila Chen is about to lose everything.
The Division has maintained perfect order for seventy years: children live on the Eastern Continent, adults on the Western. At eighteen, your memories are extracted, your identity erased, and you cross the Boundary to begin adult life.
When Leila's best friend Maya is extracted, she leaves behind a puzzle box with forbidden information. Now, hours before her own scheduled extraction, Leila discovers a shocking truth: memories aren't erased-they're suppressed. And some people, like her father, can remember.
Armed with a master key that can access every stolen memory in the Division's archives, Leila escapes across the Boundary to the Western Continent. In a world of manufactured identities and constant surveillance, she must find Maya, restore her memories, and expose the Division's lies before they silence her permanently.
But in a society built on forgetting, remembering is the most dangerous act of all.
**Remembering is forbidden. Forgetting is impossible.**
It's been two years since the United States waved their white flag. Two years since the Great War ended. Two years since the politics-ruined veins of the government shut down.
Two months later, the government begins studying mutants more closely. Studying for their powers, their abilities to help win wars.
Two years later, Athena finds herself stuck in a military compound surrounded by friends and foes. Everyone holds secrets, even her.
With mutants with the ability to read minds, to control your behavior, or to copy you, will Athena be able to save her friends and herself or will her mind and world crumble around her?