The River that Forgets-The Shadow Current.

What if she had stayed?
When Mereana steps back from the train platform, the world seems to pause-as if the river itself holds its breath. By turning away, she unravels the thread of fate that once carried her far from the valley, and the life she thought she could forget begins to shift and breathe again.

The river remembers.
It hums beneath the earth, whispering of those who were never laid to rest and of a promise carved into greenstone long ago.
But this time, the current flows differently-slower, darker.
And what it brings to the surface isn't just memory, but consequence.

As Mereana stays, her reflection begins to fracture. The pendant that once guided her now burns against her skin, drawing her toward a world that exists between waking and remembering-a place where ancestors walk beside the living and where silence carries the weight of generations.
Old wounds resurface. Forgotten names stir. And the choices she makes now ripple backward through her whakapapa, changing not only her story but also the stories of all who came before her.
In this alternate path-one born from defiance and love-Mereana must face what the river never let her see: that remembrance can be dangerous than forgetting
The River That Remembers is a tale of identity, inheritance, and the ghosts that live in the blood - a redemptive return to the world of the first book, where myth and memory entwine, and every choice alters the flow of time itself.