BEFORE YOU REMEMBER

Savien Aeris Delaire has always been the person people forget.

Not because she's quiet.

Not because she hides.

At five-foot-eleven with messy curls, old glasses, and a habit of standing at the edge of every group photo, she's hard to miss.

Yet somehow, she always ends up in the background.

The friend holding everyone's secrets.

The friend who stays.

The friend who listens.

The friend nobody really looks at.

And honestly?

Savien likes it that way.

Until an old photograph changes everything.

At first, it seems harmless.

Just another picture from a trip she barely remembers.

But there's a girl standing in the background.

A girl nobody recognizes.

A girl nobody remembers seeing.

Not her friends.

Not the people who were there.

Not even the resort staff.

The strange part?

Savien can't stop feeling like she knows her.

As forgotten memories begin surfacing and long-buried secrets refuse to stay hidden, Savien finds herself trapped in a mystery that seems to revolve around a past she doesn't remember and a truth everyone else is desperate to avoid.

The only person who doesn't seem surprised is Cassia Vale.

Cold.

Unreadable.

And somehow always one step ahead.

The deeper Savien digs, the more impossible things become. Because the girl in the photo shouldn't exist.

Yet somehow...

she's the only thing that feels familiar.

And the closer Savien gets to the truth, the more terrifying one question becomes:

What if there was a reason she was never supposed to remember?