NIKI FLORICA

In the city of Canaan, seemingly peaceful life is overshadowed by the Forgetting—the terrifying phenomenon every twelve years in which everyone loses all memory of who they are. To the people of Canaan, memory is everything. They record their lives in the books they carry with them at all times so that, after the Forgetting, they may continue from where their pasts ended. Those without books are without memories. Those without memories are nothing. Nadia the Dyer's Daughter i

The world has shifted on its axis. Technology and machinery have been destroyed and thrust into Ancient history, replaced by a world where history seems to be repeating itself. In the Parisian Sunken City, a radical ruler is imprisoning the wealthy and sending them to the Razor in droves—at least, those of them who don't vanish mysteriously from their prison cells, a red-dipped rook feather left in their place. Meanwhile, in the Commonwealth across the Channel, Sophia Bellam